School knowledge in comparative and historical perspective : changing curricula in primary and secondary education / edited by Aaron Benavot and Cecilia Braslavsky, in collaboration with Nhung Truong.
"School curricula are established not only to prepare young people for a real world, but also to beckon an imagined one anchored in individual rights and collective progress. Both worlds—the real and the imagined—increasingly reflect influential trans-national forces.In this special edited volu...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; London :
Springer,
[2007]
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| Series: | CERC studies in comparative education ;
v. 18. |
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "School curricula are established not only to prepare young people for a real world, but also to beckon an imagined one anchored in individual rights and collective progress. Both worlds—the real and the imagined—increasingly reflect influential trans-national forces.In this special edited volume, scholars with diverse backgrounds and conceptual frameworks explore how economic, political, social and ideological forces impact on school curricula over time and place. In providing regional and global perspectives on curricular policies, practices and reforms, the authors move beyond the conventional notion that school contents reflect principally national priorities and subject-based interests. Some authors emphasize a convergence to standardized global curricular structures and discourses. Others suggest that changes regarding the intended contents of primary and secondary school curricula reveal regional or trans-cultural influences. Overall, these comparative and historical studies demonstrate that the dynamics of curriculum-making and curricular reform are increasingly forged within wider regional, cross-regional and global contexts."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 315 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1402057350 9781402057359 9400787103 9789400787100 1280935693 9781280935695 1402057369 9781402057366 |