Curriculum in Context

Perspectives on the Context of Curriculum/PART ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES/Constructing the Concept of Curriculum on the Wisconsin Frontier/How School Restructuring Sustained a Pedagogical Revolution/Movers and Shakers/High Politics and the Origins of the English National Curriculum/Technical Education and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century England and France/Assessment and the Emergence of Modern Society/PART TWO: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES/Values and Aims in Curriculum and Assessment Frameworks/A 16-Nation Review/'Quality' in Early Childhood Programmes/A Contextually Appropriate Approach/Valid Knowledge and the Problem of Practical Arts Curricula/Culture Mind and Education/PART THREE: CHANGE PERSPECTIVES/Vision and Constraint in Curriculum Change/A Case Study of South African Secondary School Principals/Recent Curriculum Change in Post-Pinochet Chile/Curriculum Development and New Information Technology/Race Culture and Curriculum Development in the USA/A Study of the Process of Introducing a Multicultural Dimension into the Curriculum/Principles for Reflecting on the Curriculum in France/Getting to Scale with Good Educational Practice