This book offers a remarkable range of research that emphasises the need to analyse the shaping of curricula under historical, social and political variables. Teachers life stories, the Cold War as a contextual element that framed curricular transformations in the US and Europe, and the study of trends in education policy at transnational level are issues addressed throughout. The book presents new lines of work, offering multidisciplinary perspectives and provides an overview of how to move forwards.
The book brings together the work of international specialists on Curriculum History and presents research that offers new perspectives and methodologies from which to approach the study of the History of Education and Educational Policy. It offers new debates which rethink the historical study of the curriculum and offers a strong interdisciplinary approach, with contributions across Education, History and the Social Sciences.
This book will be of great interest for academics and researchers in the fields of education and curriculum studies. It will also appeal to educational professionals, teachers and policy makers.
Introduction. Curriculum history and transnational perspectives for
studies: generating debates on educational research.
1. From Mystification to
Markets: the Evolution of Curriculum History and Life History.
2. Physics for
the Enquiring Mind: The Nuffield Physics Ordinary-Level Course, 1962-1966.
3.
Narratives of education and curriculum transition in the formerly socialist
European countries: The example of Estonia.
4. African American Curriculum
History: New Possibilities and Directions.
5. UNESCO mediation in Francoist
curriculum policy: the case of Educational Television in Spain.
6.
Transnational information flow and domestic concerns: Japanese educational
exhibits in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Britain.
7.
Local versus national history of education: The case of Swedish school
governance, 1950-1990. 8.Curriculum History Research in Mainland China and
Taiwan: Its Status and Prospect.
9. Transnational colonial entanglements:
South African teacher education college curricula.
10. The failure of a
pedagogical innovation: learning to write in Brazil and France at the end of
the nineteenth century.
11. The two faces of the same coin. National and
individual refraction in curriculum policies in Portugal. Conclusions.
Transnational perspectives on Curriculum History.
Gary McCulloch is the inaugural Brian Simon Professor of the History of Education at UCL Institute of Education, UK.
Ivor Goodson is Full Professor of Learning Theory at Education Research Centre, University of Brighton, UK.
Mariano Gonzįlez-Delgado is Assistant Professor of History of Education at Universidad de La Laguna, Spain.
