This book focuses on examining how curriculum is treated and developed, and its impact on pedagogy and assessment worldwide. Its breadth and rigour will make it essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
SAGE 50 Year.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Editorial Board.
Notes on the Editors and Contributors.
1: Introduction.
The Epistemology and Methodology of Curriculum.
2: Conceptions of Curriculum.
3: History of the Curriculum.
4: Aims of Education in a Democracy.
5: Knowledge and the Curriculum: A Pragmatist Approach.
6: Knowledge and the Curriculum in the Sociology of Knowledge.
7: Didactics.
8: Educational Neuroscience and Learning.
9: Rethinking Child-Centred Education.
10: Practitioner Research: Understanding Teaching Through Inquiry.
Curriculum and Pedagogy.
11: Culture and Pedagogy(ies): (What) Have We Learned From and Since Alexander 2001.
12: The Teacher and the Curriculum: Exploring Teacher Agency.
13: Inclusion in Public Schools: Learning to Think and Learning to Live Together.
14: Subordinate Subjects: The Work of the Hidden Curriculum in Post-Colonial Ghana.
15: Ethnicity and the Curriculum.
16: Gender and the Curriculum.
17: Children’s Rights and Student Voice: Their Intersections and the Implications for Curriculum and Pedagogy.
18: Alongside Virtual Youth Using the Internet: Creating and Researching Learning Interactions.
19: Curriculum and Teacher Development.
20: Curriculum and Pedagogy: The Future of Teacher Professional Learning and the Development of Adaptive Expertise.
21: Pedagogy and Curriculum – Teachers as Learners.
Curriculum Subjects.
22: Visual Art.
23: The Performing Arts in Learning, Curriculum and Culture.
24: The ‘Value’ of Computers and Computing: Toward a New Axiology of Educational Technology.
25: Geography.
26: History Curriculum: A Transatlantic Analysis.
27: World Languages Curriculum.
28: Physical Education.
29: Religious Education.
30: Science Education and Economic Growth: Some Implications for Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment.
