3rd Edition

School Subjects and Curriculum Change

By Ivor F. Goodson Copyright 1993
264 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Part 1 Becoming an Academic Subject; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Growth of the English Education System; Chapter 3 Academic ‘Subjects’ and Curriculum Change; Part 2 School Subjects; Chapter 4 Biology; Chapter 5 Geography; Chapter 6 Rural Studies; Part 3 Relationship Between Subjects; Chapter 7 ‘Climates of Opinion’ with Respect to Education and the Environment, 1960–1975; Chapter 8 Redefining Rural Studies; Chapter 9 Construction of an ‘A’ Level Syllabus; Chapter 10 The Defence of Geography and Biology; Chapter 11 The Negotiation of Environmental Studies; Part 4 Conclusions; Chapter 12 Conclusions, Complexities and Conjectures;

Biography

Ivor Goodson, Peter McLaren