Originally published in 1988. This book presents comparative data from a range of countries which help define the methodologies employed in curriculum history. It also explores some of the major curriculum issues uncovered in historical studies.
Originally published in 1988. The history of curriculum has now become an extremely important area of curriculum research. The rehabilitation of historical studies has challenged mainstream psychological and philosophical theories of curriculum and it argues for a reformulation of the current dominance of scientific management models of curriculum changes.
This book presents comparative data from a range of countries which help define the methodologies employed in curriculum history. It also explores some of the major curriculum issues uncovered in historical studies.
1. Introduction Ivor Goodson
2. Relations, Structures and Conditions in
Curriculum Change: A Political History of English Teaching 1970-85 Stephen J.
Ball
3. The Emergence and Redefining of English for the Common School
1889-1984 Bjųrg Brandtzaeg Gundem
4. Tensions and Realignments: School
Physics in British Columbia 1955-80 Patricia M. Rowell and P. James Gaskell
5. Process of Curriculum Change: An Historical Sketch of Science Education in
the Alte Schools Louis M. Smith
6. Science Curriculum Change in Victorian
England: A Case Study of the Science of Common Things Derek Hodson
7. The
Development of a Senior School Geoqraphy Curriculum in Western Australia 1964
84 Colin J. Marsh
8. An Historical Perspective on Justifying the Teaching of
Mathematics George M. A. Stanic
9. Who Controls the Curriculum? The Story of
'New Maths 1960-80 Bob Moon
10. John Dewey in Sweden. Notes on Progressivism
in Swedish Education 1900-1945 Ulf P. Lundgren
11. Education for an Urban
America. Ralph Tyler and the Curriculum Field Barry M. Franklin
12.
Curriculum History in England and New Zealand Gary McCulloch
Ivor Goodson