Routledge Library Editions: Curriculum
About the Book Series
Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1994, this collection includes books which offer a broad spectrum of views on curriculum, both within individual schools and the wider issues around curriculum development, reform and implementation. Some cover the debate surrounding the establishment of the national curriculum in the UK while others are a more international in scope. Many of these books go beyond theory to discuss practical issues of real curriculum changes at primary or secondary level. The Set includes books on cross-curricular topics such as citizenship and environment, and also guidance, careers, life skills and pastoral care in schools. A fantastic collection of education history with much still relevant today.
Teacher Thinking: A Study of Practical Knowledge
1st Edition
By Freema Elbaz
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1983. A broad examination of the ways in which teachers gain and use knowledge about their work is presented in this book. At the time, within curriculum studies, there was a developing greater understanding of the major role that teachers play in the implementation of ...
The Common Curriculum: Its Structure and Style in the Comprehensive School
1st Edition
By Maurice Holt
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1978. This book presents how the potential of the comprehensive school could be realized by bringing unity and coherence to its curriculum and organization. Among the subjects considered are value judgments and curriculum design; faculties and the organization of learning; ...
The Curriculum: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Brian Holmes, Martin McLean
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1989. What should be taught in schools? This book explores the differing curriculum traditions in Britain, Europe, the USA, Latin America, India and the Far East and the possibilities for change. For the practising teacher and the educationalist it opens up the debates about...
The Curriculum Challenge: Access to the National Curriculum for Pupils with Learning Difficulties
1st Edition
Edited
By Rob Ashdown, Barry Carpenter, Keith Bovair
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1991. The introduction of the National Curriculum has presented many challenges for those concerned with the education of children and young people. One of the questions has been how to guarantee access to the National Curriculum for individuals with special educational ...
The Development of the Secondary Curriculum
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael H. Price
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1986. This book's focus is on English secondary schooling in the late 19th and 20th Centuries, during which the definition of a general ‘secondary’ education was itself negotiated and consolidated before the development of secondary modern and then comprehensive schools...
The Formation of School Subjects: The Struggle for Creating an American Institution
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas S. Popkewitz
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1987. This volume focuses upon the emergence of the subject-matter of the American school. This provides entrance to looking at the interplay between social, cultural, economic and professional interests that give form to contemporary school practices. The historical detail ...
The Impact of the National Curriculum on the Teaching of Five-Year-Olds
1st Edition
By Theo Cox, Susan Sanders
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1994. One of the most neglected areas of research and thus writing is the world of the infant school child. Those who know it best are teachers who tend not to write. Those who write most are academics and even they venture rarely into this area. This book is based on ...
The Insistence of the Letter: Literacy Studies and Curriculum Theorizing
1st Edition
Edited
By Bill Green
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1992. What kinds of literacy are appropriate for life and work in the late twentieth century? What historically is the relationship between curriculum and literacy, and how is it changing? The essays in this book provide an innovative forum for discussion for what are often ...
The Preparation for Life Curriculum
1st Edition
By Brian Wilcox, Jacqueline Dunn, Sue Lavercombe, Lesley Burn
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1984. Many schools are faced with the problem of what to teach the large numbers of below average pupils who are never likely to pass any GCE or CSE examination. These pupils are often troublesome, bored and eager to get out of school into the real world of work. At this ...
The Role of Evaluators in Curriculum Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Pinchas Tamir
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1985. This is an overview of the evolution of curriculum evaluation since the reforms of the 1960s, presented through the personal and practical knowledge of experienced individuals, rather than abstract theoretical models which hitherto dominated the field. A collection of ...
The School Curriculum
1st Edition
By W. Kenneth Richmond
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1971. All education systems tend to be traditional and conservative. In times of rapid social change, the work of the schools becomes increasingly outdated by events. Continuous adaptation of the curriculum (which includes content, method and organization) can no longer be ...
The Teaching of Primary Science: Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Richards, Derek Holford
January 23, 2020
Originally published in 1983. This book provides the first overview of developments in primary science prior to and following the national survey of primary schools in 1978. Key issues central to contemporary policy and practice are identified, set in context and interrelated for teachers, students...