Schooling, society and curriculum /

Schooling, society and curriculum / Alex Moore. - London : New York : Routledge, 2006. - xiv, 207 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Foundations and Futures of Education .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194) and index.


Part 1: Issues and Contexts 1. Education, Knowledge and the Role of the State - the Nationalisation of Educational Knowledge? 2. Six Curriculum Discourses: Contestation and Edification 3. The Puritan Origins of the 1988 School Curriculum in England 4. The Instrumentalisation of the Expressive in Education Part 2: Values and Learners 5. Gender, Power and Curriculum: an Inevitable Interconnection 6. Curriculum as Culture: Entitlement, Bias and the Bourdieusean Arbitrary 7. New Directions in Citizenship Education: Re-Conceptualising the Curriculum in the Context of Globalization Part 3: School Curricula in the Digital Age 8. New Ways of Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: Implications for Curriculum Studies 9. ICT and the Curriculum Canon: Responding to and Exploring ‘Alternative Knowledge’ Part 4: Foundations and Futures: Exploring the Possible 10. Understanding Curriculum as Utopian Text 11. Learning and Curriculum: Agency, Ethics and Aesthetics in an Era of Instability

This is a reassessment and realignment of Curriculum Studies in the UK and international contexts. Comprising a collection of 11 chapters, this book leads and fosters critical, generic debates about formal education and its relationships to the wider society.

9780415363952 9780415363969 (pbk)


Educational sociology
Education--Great Britain.--Curricula--Great Britain.

306.432 / MOO