Rethinking Curriculum Studies: A Radical Approach - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 070990438X ISBN 13: 9780709904380

Publisher: Croom Helm Ltd, 1981

Synopsis

This book reappraises the British and American experience in curriculum studies, the curious way in which it has been dominated by certain ideas and introduces the reader to alternative ways of perceiving, defining and approaching its problems. It provides a radical critique of the whole area, presenting both Marxist and phenomenological perspectives on the current dilemmas that teachers face. The book argues that in order to understand the problems teachers face in coping with the curriculum, we must look at the situation from the point of view of the individual rather than prescribing a norm for all teachers. The dynamic relationship between the individual and the collective and the teacher and the state is one of the fundamental issues in solving the present problems in curriculum studies. The book focuses on this central problem and suggests a variety of ways in which new solutions may be found.

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'This book should be indispensable, a book to possess.’ A M A

Edition details

• Publisher: Croom Helm Ltd
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 070990438X
• ISBN 13: 9780709904380
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Barton Len, Lawn Martin