Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History by McCulloch, Gary; Goodson, Ivor; González-Delgado, Mariano;

Short description:

This book offers a remarkable range of research that emphasizes the need to analyse the shaping of curricula under historical, social and political variables.

Long description:

This book offers a remarkable range of research that emphasises the need to analyse the shaping of curricula under historical, social and political variables. Teachers’ life stories, the Cold War as a contextual element that framed curricular transformations in the US and Europe, and the study of trends in education policy at transnational level are issues addressed throughout. The book presents new lines of work, offering multidisciplinary perspectives and provides an overview of how to move forwards.

The book brings together the work of international specialists on Curriculum History and presents research that offers new perspectives and methodologies from which to approach the study of the History of Education and Educational Policy. It offers new debates which rethink the historical study of the curriculum and offers a strong interdisciplinary approach, with contributions across Education, History and the Social Sciences.

This book will be of great interest for academics and researchers in the fields of education and curriculum studies. It will also appeal to educational professionals, teachers and policy makers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Curriculum history and transnational perspectives for studies: generating debates on educational research.  1.  From Mystification to Markets: the Evolution of Curriculum History and Life History.  2.  Physics for the Enquiring Mind: The Nuffield Physics Ordinary-Level Course, 1962-1966.  3. Narratives of education and curriculum transition in the formerly socialist European countries: The example of Estonia.  4.  African American Curriculum History: New Possibilities and Directions.  5. UNESCO mediation in Francoist curriculum policy: the case of Educational Television in Spain.  6. Transnational information flow and domestic concerns: Japanese educational exhibits in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Britain.  7. Local versus national history of education: The case of Swedish school governance, 1950-1990.  8.Curriculum History Research in Mainland China and Taiwan: Its Status and Prospect.  9. Transnational colonial entanglements: South African teacher education college curricula. 10. The failure of a pedagogical innovation: learning to write in Brazil and France at the end of the nineteenth century.  11. The two faces of the same coin. National and individual refraction in curriculum policies in Portugal.  Conclusions. Transnational perspectives on Curriculum History.