Curriculum Studies

Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems..

Young children are required not only to produce art, but also to study it - understanding the huge variety of art from different places and time. How do teachers tackle this when most of them have not studied art themselves?..

Teaching design and technology to young children has set new challenges for primary school managers, teachers, pupils and parents. Using case studies, this book reveals teaching methods, issues faced and students experiences...

It combines a critical evaluation of the traditional methods that form the organizing principles for second and foreign language teacher education, an informed discussion of their strengths and limitations, and a rationale for and description of the emer..

It combines a critical evaluation of the traditional methods that form the organizing principles for second and foreign language teacher education, an informed discussion of their strengths and limitations, and a rationale for and description of the emer..

This book opens up alternative ways of thinking and talking about ways in which a person can "know" a subject (in this case, mathematics), leading to a reconsideration of what it may mean to be a teacher of that subject...

This book opens up alternative ways of thinking and talking about ways in which a person can "know" a subject (in this case, mathematics), leading to a reconsideration of what it may mean to be a teacher of that subject...

This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) asks readers to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to become "educated" in the present moment...

This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) asks readers to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to become "educated" in the present moment...

In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society.  The goal is to explore how governments use education to control and ma..

In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society.  The goal is to explore how governments use education to control and ma..

This book takes a unique approach by using the sociology of Basil Bernstein and the philosophy of critical realism as complementary modes of theorising to extend and develop social realist arguments about the role of knowledge in curriculum, and to elaborate social realism’s critique of constructivi..