Schooling, Society and Curriculum

ISBN-13: 9780415363952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 207 str.

Alex Moore

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"The Foundations and Futures of Education" series focuses on key emerging issues in education as well as continuing debates within the field. The series is inter-disciplinary, and includes historical, philosophical, sociological, psychological and comparative perspectives on three major themes: the purposes and nature of education; increasing interdisciplinary within the subject; and the theory-practice divide.
In recent years, much curriculum debate has focused less on wider issues related to the purposes of education and more on the content and "delivery" of school curricula themselves, including new and revised national curricula.
"Schooling Society and Curriculum "seeks to return curriculum studies to critical, generic debates about formal education and its relationships to the wider society, reminding readers of the key curriculum debates that have been present since formal state education began and reassessing them in the context of current curricular trends and polices. The approach goes further, however, by placing such debates within a future-orientated perspective and focusing on some of the key emerging issues of the twenty-first century. These include:
· "globalization" and reconstructed nationalism
· a revived interest and understanding of what it means to be a good citizen
· developments in the areas of cultural pluralism
· the rapid development of digital technology and its impact on learning
· changing relationships between the "state" and the "market" and their impact on formal education.
The book, part of the" Foundations and Futures of Education "Series, addresses these issues through eleven essays by prominent, nationally and internationally known experts. Centrally it looks at what it is young people need from a school curriculum to help them develop as happy, socially responsible adults, capable of managing and making the most of a very unpredictable future.

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Part 1: Issues and Contexts  1. Education, Knowledge and the Role of the State - the Nationalisation of Educational Knowledge?  2. Six Curriculum Discourses: Contestation and Edification  3. The Puritan Origins of the 1988 School Curriculum in England  4. The Instrumentalisation of the Expressive in Education  Part 2: Values and Learners  5. Gender, Power and Curriculum: an Inevitable Interconnection  6. Curriculum as Culture: Entitlement, Bias and the Bourdieusean Arbitrary  7. New Directions in Citizenship Education: Re-Conceptualising the Curriculum in the Context of Globalization  Part 3: School Curricula in the Digital Age  8. New Ways of Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: Implications for Curriculum Studies  9. ICT and the Curriculum Canon: Responding to and Exploring ‘Alternative Knowledge’  Part 4: Foundations and Futures: Exploring the Possible  10. Understanding Curriculum as Utopian Text  11. Learning and Curriculum: Agency, Ethics and Aesthetics in an Era of Instability

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Alex Moore is Reader in Education in the School of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London, where he teaches on a variety of courses. He is chair and convenor of the New Directions for Curriculum Studies seminar group, which attracts participants from all over the UK as well as from America. His publications include three sinlge-authored books, including The Good Teacher published in 2004 by RoutledgeFalmer, plus numerous journal articles and book chapters.