Curriculum and Culture (RLE: Education): Schooling in a Pluralist Society (Routledge Library Editions: Education) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415669634 ISBN 13: 9780415669634

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This book demonstrates how it is possible to value, respect and utilise cultural diversity and yet achieve a ‘good education’ for all. The authors contend that few issues in education can be examined in isolation from the world outside. This must surely apply to the question of cultural, social and economic differences among children, and this book continually emphasises the importance of a healthy social climate as well as mastery of language, literacy and numeracy. The book examines different teaching procedures and advises on curriculum construction and content, especially the relationships between the teaching and learning of language and teaching and learning in a language. In short, the authors have examined the why, the what and the how of schooling to accommodate educational diversity and have suggested an approach that is constructive and stimulating rather than simply therapeutic.

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Leslie Claydon (Edited by) , Tony Knight (Edited by) , Marta Rado (Edited by)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415669634
• ISBN 13: 9780415669634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Claydon Leslie, Knight Tony, Rado Marta