| Description |
xvii, 254 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
World year book of education ; 2011
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| Contents |
Introduction. Curriculum in today's world: configuring knowledge, identities, work and politics / Lyn Yates and Madeleine Grument -- Part I. Curriculum and national/global identities. Dressing the national imaginary: making space for the veiled student in curriculum policy / Georgina Tsolidis ; Nationalism, anti-Americanism, Canadian identity / William F. Pinar ; Curriculum policies in Brazil: the citizenship discourse / Elizabeth Macedo ; Conceptualising curriculum knowledge within and beyond the national context / Berit Karseth and Kirsten Sivesind -- Part II. Curriculum, the economy and work. Values education amid globalization and change: the case of national education in Singapore / Jason Tan ; Preparing students for the new world of work: critical reflections on English policy for work-related learning in the twenty-first century / Ann-Marie Bathmaker ; The curriculum of basic education in Mainland China: before and after the Reform and Opening Up / Miantao Sun and Jiang Yu -- Part III. Curriculum and knowledge. Curriculum policies for a knowledge society? / Michael Young ; Knowledge, knowers and knowing: curriculum reform in South Africa / Ursula Hoadley ; Making nothing happen: affective life under audit / Peter Taubman -- Part IV. Curriculum responses to politics and vulnerabilities. Images of the "other" in school textbooks and Islamic reading materials in Pakistan / Tariq Rahman ; In search of identity: competing models in Russia's civic education / Anatoli Rapoport ; Configuration of knowledge, identity and politics through the current history curriculum in Israel / Eyal Naveh ; The challenges of writing "first draft history": the evolution of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath in school textbooks in the United States / Jeremy Stoddard, Diana Hess and Catherine Mason Hammer -- Afterword. The world in today's curriculum / Madeleine Grumet and Lyn Yates |
| Summary |
This title brings together contributions from around the world that analyse and reflect on the way curriculum is configuring and reconfiguring that world |
| Notes |
ANALYTIC |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Recommended Reading EDUC 5020 2011 |
| Subject |
Education -- Curricula -- Periodicals
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Education -- Periodicals -- Curricula
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Curriculum-based assessment
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Education -- Curricula
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Education -- Cross-cultural studies
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Education -- Curricula.
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Curriculum.
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Lehrplan.
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Internationaler Vergleich.
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| Genre/Form |
Periodicals.
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| Author |
Yates, Lyn, 1949-
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Grumet, Madeleine R
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| LC no. |
2010513432 |
| ISBN |
9780415575829 (hbk.) |
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0415575826 (hbk.) |
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