The Primary Curriculum: Learning from International Perspectives
by Hargreaves, Linda; Moyles, Janet R.Pub. Date: 2002-02-07
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
This book is concerned with the relationships and tensions in education between children's needs and societies' demands, questions which primary teachers everywhere face on a daily basis, such as: * how does society's view of children and childhood affect teaching and learning? * how do the dictates of the education system, including a national curriculum, shape teaching practice? * how do the conventions of classroom practice fit with teachers' own beliefs and values? The first part of the book offers a basic framework for thinking about primary curricula from the perspectives raised by these questions, whilst the second part presents a range of international views on the primary curriculum from Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Europe and the USA.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| List of Figures and Tables | |
| List of Photographs | |
| Introduction Janet Moyles and Linda Hargreaves | |
| Primary Curricula: Origins and Influences | |
| Historical and Philosophical Influences on the Primary Curriculum | |
| The Concept of a Development Curriculum | |
| The Primary National Curriculum in England: A Sociological Perspective | |
| Changing Primary Elementary School Curricula: An Analysis of the English Experience | |
| Making a Curriculum: Some Principles of Curriculum Building | |
| Primary Curricula: International Contexts and Perspectives Introduction Janet Moyles and Linda Hargreaves | |
| Primary Education for the Rural Black South African Child | |
| Primary Curriculum: The Japanese Perspective | |
| Relationships and Tensions in the Primary Curriculum of the United States | |
| Primary Education: An Australian Perspective | |
| Primary Schooling in Hong Kong | |
| Curriculum across Cultures: Contexts and Connections Martin Cortazzi Endpiece | |
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