Subject Knowledge

School knowledge has been a subject for historians, notably in the field of history of education. concentrating on the educational aspects of particular historical periods, however, links with contemporary education have often remained undeveloped.; This text attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s. Goodson's analysis of his own work in the UK and North America examines the range of insights afforded of the nature of schooling and teaching through the study of school subjects. The need for curriculum history; becoming a school subject; the micro- politics of curriculum change - European studies; on explaining curriculum change; subject status and curriculum change; subjects and the everyday life of schooling; subject cultures and the introduction of classroom computers; computer studies as symbolic and ideological action; on curriculum form; nation at risk and National Curriculum.