School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education
Editors: Benavot, Aaron, Braslavsky, Cecilia (Eds.)
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- Brings together leading scholars in the field
- Includes global, regional and historical perspectives
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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.
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-11
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Educational Ideology and the School Curriculum
Pages 15-34
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The Worldwide Rise of Human Rights Education
Pages 35-52
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The Spread of English Language Instruction in the Primary School
Pages 55-71
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Educating Future Citizens in Europe and Asia
Pages 73-88
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective
- Book Subtitle
- Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education
- Editors
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- Aaron Benavot
- Cecilia Braslavsky
- Series Title
- CERC Studies in Comparative Education
- Series Volume
- 18
- Copyright
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-5736-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-5736-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-5735-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 306
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