School Subjects and Curriculum Change
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Author Description
The Process Of Curriculum Development Is Highly Practical, As Goodson Shows In This Enlarged Anniversary Third Edition Of His Seminal Work. The Position Of Subjects And Their Development Within The Curriculum Is Illustrated By Looking At How School Subjects, In Particular, Geography And Biology, Gained Academic And Intellectual Respectability Within The Whole Curriculum During The Late 1960s And Early 1970s. He Highlights How Subjects Owe Their Formation And Accreditation To Competing Status And Their Power To Compete In The Provision Of 'worthwhile' Knowledge And Considers Subjects As Continually Changing Sub-groups Of Information. Such Subjects From The Framework Of The Society In Which Individuals Live And Over Which They Have Influence. This Volume Questions The Basis On Which Subject Disciplines Are Developed And Formulates New Possibilities For Curriculum Development And Reform In A Post-modrnist Age.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
How do school subjects evolve from disparate knowledge into established academic disciplines, and what power dynamics govern their inclusion in the curriculum? Ivor F. Goodson, a prominent scholar in curriculum history, utilizes a socio-historical framework to examine the development of school subjects. By analyzing the professionalization and status-seeking behaviors of specific disciplines, he argues that the curriculum is not a neutral collection of knowledge but a contested territory shaped by competing interest groups and institutional power.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Historical analysis of the British education system from the late 1960s to the 1970s.
- Case studies focusing on the institutionalization of Geography, Biology, and Rural Studies.
- A theoretical framework regarding the territorial nature of subject conflict and academic accreditation.
- Critical evaluation of how 'worthwhile' knowledge is defined and defended within educational policy.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts recognize this work as a foundational text in the sociology of the school curriculum, frequently cited for its rigorous historical methodology. Readers often note the academic density of the prose, which serves as a primary resource for researchers and students of educational policy.
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Publication Date:
2013-01-01
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10:
0203083229
ISBN-13:
9780203083222
History
Academic Research
Sociology
Education
