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Subject Knowledge: Readings for the Study of School Subjects »

Authors: Christo Anstead, Anstead Christo, J. Marshall Mangan
ISBN-13: 9780750707268, ISBN-10: 0750707267
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: October 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Christo Anstead

Book Synopsis

School knowledge has been a subject for historians, notably in the field of history of education. concentrating on the educational aspects of particular historical periods, however, links with contemporary education have often remained undeveloped.; This text attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s. Goodson's analysis of his own work in the UK and North America examines the range of insights afforded of the nature of schooling and teaching through the study of school subjects.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Studying Subject Knowledge	1
2	The Need for Curriculum History	13
3	Becoming a School Subject	20
4	The Micro Politics of Curriculum Change: European Studies	38
5	On Explaining Curriculum Change: H.B. Beal, Organisational Categories and the Rhetoric of Justification	51
6	Subject Status and Curriculum Change: Local Commercial Education, 1920-40	67
7	Subjects and the Everyday Life of Schooling	84
8	Subject Cultures and the Introduction of Classroom Computers	105
9	Computer Studies as Symbolic and Ideological Action: The Genealogy of the ICON	122
10	On Curriculum Form: Notes Toward a Theory of Curriculum	137
11	'Nations at Risk' and 'National Curriculum': Ideology and Identity	150
	Index of Names	165
	Subject Index	167