Knowledge, Content, Curriculum and Didaktik: Beyond Social Realism

ISBN-13: 9780815360193 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 100 str.

Zongyi Deng

Opis

Bringing to bear a wealth of literature from curriculum theory, Didaktik, philosophy of education and teacher education, this book broadens and enriches the conversation initiated by Michael Young and his colleagues on "bringing knowledge back in" (Young, 2007).

Spis treści

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Knowledge, disciplinarity and postmodern critiques
3. Aims of schooling, school subjects and knowledge questions
4. Liberal education, Bildung and theory of knowledge
5. Liberal education, Bildung and theory of content
6. Rethinking teaching and teachers: bringing content back into conversation
7. Pedagogical content knowledge reconceived: bringing curriculum thinking into conversation on teachers' understanding of content
8. Conclusion: beyond social realism
Index

O autorze

Zongyi Deng is Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. He is also an executive editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies (JCS) and has held faculty positions at Nanyang Technological University and the University of Hong Kong. His interest areas include curriculum content or subject matter, curriculum theory, didactics (Didaktik), curriculum policy and reform, and comparative and international education. His publications appear in JCS, Curriculum Inquiry, Comparative Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Teachers and Teaching, Cambridge Journal of Education, Science Education and other international journals. Edited books include Re-envisioning Chinese Education: The Meaning of Person-Making in a New Age (with Guoping Zhao; 2015) and Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum: From Policy to Classroom (with S. Gopinathan and Christine Lee; 2013).