Creating Curricula: Aims, Knowledge and Control

ISBN-13: 9780367028824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 152 str.

Dominic Wyse

Opis

Convincing arguments that knowledge needs to be ‘brought back’ to the curriculum, and the attention of curriculum researchers, and a growing emphasis on international educational comparisons, has resulted in a ‘crisis’ in curriculum studies. Building on seminal work in the sociology and philosophy of education in order to develop new foundations for curriculum study, and using the importance of ‘transactions’ as the context for understanding knowledge in the curriculum, this book suggests a rapprochement in the field around the idea of curriculum knowledge as both constructed and real. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Curriculum Journal.

Spis treści

Introduction – Creating curricula: aims, knowledges, and control  1. What is a curriculum and what can it do?  2. Knowledge and the curriculum  3. Pragmatising the curriculum: bringing knowledge back into the curriculum conversation, but via pragmatism  4. Downgraded curriculum? An analysis of knowledge in new curricula in Scotland and New Zealand  5. An aims-based curriculum illustrated by the teaching of science in schools  6. Two contrasting Australian Curriculum responses to globalisation: what students should learn or become  7. Dysfunctional dichotomies? Deflating bipolar constructions of curriculum and pedagogy through case studies from music and history  8. Curriculum and assessment reform gone wrong: the perfect storm of GCSE English

O autorze

Dominic Wyse is Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education, and Head of the Department of Learning and Leadership, at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. The main focus of his research is curriculum and pedagogy, and key areas of his work include the teaching of writing, reading, and creativity. He is the lead editor of the SAGE Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment (2015), and the co-author of Teaching English, Language and Literacy - 3^rd Edition (2013). His most recent book is Education and Childhood: From Current Certainties to New Visions (2015). He is a fellow of the RSA.