1st Edition
The Social Subjects Within the Curriculum Children’s Social Learning in the National Curriculum
Introduction
John Ahier and Alistair Ross
Part 1: The Contemporary Context for the Social Subjects
1. Education for Citizenship and the Problem of Identity in Post-modern Political Culture
Rob Gilbert
2. Narrations of ‘Self’ and ‘World’ through the Economic and Industrial Understanding Curriculum
Jeff Vass
Part 2: The Construction of Social Curricula
3. The Rise and Fall of the Social Subjects in the Curriculum
Alistair Ross
4. The Whole Curriculum, the National Curriculum and Social Studies
Alistair Ross
Part 3: Reactions to the Cross-curricular Themes
5. Cross-curricular Integration and the Construction of the Self in the Primary Curriculum
Anna Craft
6. Citizenship in the Primary Curriculum
Keith Crawford
7. Hidden Controversies in Two Cross-curricular Themes
John Ahier
8. Indoctrination or Empowerment? The Case of Economic and Industrial Understanding
Anna Craft
9. Health, Sex and Drugs Education: Rhetoric and Reality
David Stears, Stephen Clift and Shane Blackman
Biography
John Ahier, at the time of the first publication, was lecturer at Open University, UK. From 1974 to 1993, he was Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education at Homerton College, Cambridge.
Alistair Ross is Senior Professor in Politics and Education at School of Social Sciences and Professions, London Metropolitan University, UK. He has a PhD in Politics from the University of London, a DLitt from London Metropolitan, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Review of the first publication:
‘Ahier and Ross have compiled a thought-provoking book…’
— Debra Costley, University of Warwick, UK
