| Description |
xviii, 238 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
8. Towards a postcolonial curriculum for the new millenium/ Crowley -- 9. Visiting the Buddha: a postcolonial reading of 'the excursion' as a pedagogic device/ Kameniar -- Sect. C: Contesting the curriculum: asking questions about pedagogical arrangements and the interests they serve. 10. Academic literacy: it warrants explicit teaching/ Barnett and Walsh -- 11. Thinking and working scientifically in schools/ Paige and Zeegers -- 12. Assessment: from standardised to authentic approaches/ Williams, Johnson and Peters with Cormak -- 131. Middle schooling and asking questions about reform: is this progress?/ Cormack -- 14. Education for sustainable lives: education for sustainablity lives!/ Smith -- Sect. D: Contesting the curriculum: asking questions about who has the decision-making power. 15. Controlling the work of teachers/ Reid -- 16. A case study if curriculum control: curriculum reform in health anbd physical education/ Garrett and Piltz |
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Introduction: Contesting the curriculum/ Reid and Johnson -- Sect. A: Contesting the curriculum: asking questions about socio-political, cultural and economic factors. 1. The nationa educational agenda and its curriculum effects/ Reid -- 2. Education for what? Contextualising VET/ Butler -- 3. How doing justice got boxed in: a cautionary curriculum tale for policy activitists/ Thomson -- 4. Doing schooling: literacy and curriculum work/ Comber -- Sect. B: Contesting the curriculum: asking questions about knowledge, structure and organisation, and the interests these serve. 5. Curriculum as political text: the case of 'Discovering Democracy'/ Gill and Reid -- 6. Determining technology education: knowing the orthodoxies, the interests and the potential/ Keirl -- 7. Gender and schooling: still making the difference? Gill and Starr -- |
| Summary |
Offers fresh insights into contemporary debates about curriculum issues in Australia. Its authors analyse critically many of the taken-for-granted principles and assumptions which underpin present curriculum practice. The book is esential reading for the undergraduate teacher, education students and practising teachers |
| Notes |
This copy has been made under Section VA ; Copyright Act 1968. This work is out of print and no longer available. This facsimile copy is for the purpose of teaching and research at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Copying restrictions apply. (Copy made November 2006) |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 211-238 |
| Subject |
Curriculum change.
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Education -- Curricula -- Australia.
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| Author |
Johnson, Bruce.
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Reid, Alan.
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| ISBN |
1876033991 |
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