School Subjects and Curriculum Change
School Subjects and Curriculum Change

Author: Ivor F. Goodson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1135722412

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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 early 1970s. He highlights how subjects owe their formation and accreditation to competing status and their power to compete in the provision of 'worthwhile' knowledge and considers subjects as continually changing sub-groups of information. Such subjects from the framework of the society in which individuals live and over which they have influence. This volume questions the basis on which subject disciplines are developed and formulates new possibilities for curriculum development and reform in a post-modrnist age.

Subject Knowledge
Subject Knowledge

Author: Christopher J. Anstead

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1135712069

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This text attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s. Goodson's analysis of his own work examines the range of insights afforded of the nature of schooling and teaching through the study of school subjects.

Studying School Subjects
Studying School Subjects

Author: Ivor F. Goodson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-04

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1135715769

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School subjects and how they are viewed and positioned within education is the focus of this text. It argues that, as part of rethinking the whole school curriculum, there has been a failure to look at the historical and social background of school subjects.

International Perspectives in Curriculum History
International Perspectives in Curriculum History

Author: Ivor Goodson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0429845960

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Originally published in 1988. The history of curriculum has now become an extremely important area of curriculum research. The rehabilitation of historical studies has challenged mainstream psychological and philosophical theories of curriculum and it argues for a reformulation of the current dominance of scientific management models of curriculum changes. This book presents comparative data from a range of countries which help define the methodologies employed in curriculum history. It also explores some of the major curriculum issues uncovered in historical studies.

The Changing Curriculum
The Changing Curriculum

Author: Ivor Goodson

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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The Changing Curriculum provides a valuable introduction to the curriculum theories of Ivor F. Goodson. As Kincheloe states, «this paradigm of curriculum study grasps the multi-dimensionality of the relationship between past and present curricular practice. In this context, Goodson recognizes the ties between history, education and politics.» The Changing Curriculum reviews the historical and social emergence of curriculum as a concept and curriculum theory as a practice. The early chapters seek to situate work on curriculum in its full social and ideological context. Later chapters provide examples of this kind of curriculum theory in looking at studies of school subjects and the relationship definitions of curriculum to forms of education, notably the study of American private schools.