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The Primary Curriculum: Learning from International Perspectives »

Authors: Janet Moyles (Editor), Linda Hargreaves
ISBN-13: 9780415158329, ISBN-10: 041515832X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Janet Moyles

Book Synopsis

This book is concerned with the relationships and tensions in education between children's needs and societies' demands. It presents a range of international perspectives and offers a framework for thinking about primary curricula.

	List of illustrations
	List of tables
	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
Pt. I	Primary curricula: origins and influences	1
	Introduction	3
1	Historical and philosophical influences on the primary curriculum	13
2	The concept of a development curriculum	28
3	The primary national curriculum in England: a sociological perspective	42
4	Changing primary/elementary school curricula: an analysis of the English experience 1862-2012	55
5	Making a curriculum: some principles of curriculum building	73
Pt. II	Primary curricula: international contexts and perspectives	81
	Introduction	83
6	Primary education for the rural black South African child	87
7	Primary curriculum: two perspectives from Japan	117
Pt. I	Hidenori Sugimine
Pt. II	Kazumi Yamamoto
8	Relationships and tensions in the primary curriculum of the United States	139
9	Primary education: an Australian perspective	158
10	Primary schooling in Hong Kong	181
11	Curricula across cultures: contexts and connections	205
	Endpiece	217
	Index	222