Beyond the National Curriculum: Curricular

Increasingly, politicians are looking for quick fixes from around the world to solve what they see as problemsin the educational system. Drawing on insights from other European curricular systems, this book will contribute, in a timely way, to the current debates on educational reform.

Series Editors' Preface

viii

Acknowledgements

xi

Introductory Remarks

1

(2)

Introduction: Transitions in Europe and the Central Role of Knowledge

3

(9)

Europe in Transition

3

(1)

Eastern Europe in Transition

4

(2)

Western Europe in Transition

6

(1)

Education in Times of Transition

7

(3)

Exemplification and Rhetorical Devices

10

(1)

Discussion Questions

11

(1)

Further Reading

11

(1)

The State Control of Knowledge

12

(14)

Knowledge Selection and Knowledge Selectors

12

(3)

Level of Control. Rigour of Control

15

(3)

Advantages of State-Controlled Curricular Systems

18

(1)

Disadvantages of State-Controlled Curricular Systems

19

(4)

England and Wales

23

(1)

Discussion Questions

24

(1)

Further Reading

24

(2)

Cultural Diversity and State Knowledge

26

(16)

A Distinction: National Diversity and Urban Diversity

26

(1)

National Diversity in Western Europe

27

(4)

National Diversity in Eastern Europe

31

(2)

Theorizing Difference

33

(2)

Education and National Diversity: Introducing the Issues

35

(2)

Urban Diversity in Western and Eastern Europe

37

(2)

Diversity and Knowledge: Introducing the Issues

39

(2)

Discussion Questions

41

(1)

Further Reading

41

(1)

The Creation and Re-Creation of Tradition in Schools and Universities

42

(18)

Traditional Elements in the Curriculum

42

(1)

Religion

43

(3)

The Family and the Body

46

(1)

Social Control and the Construction of Identity

47

(3)

Tradition, Culture and Civilization as We Know it

50

(2)

Modernity and Postmodernity: Their Impact on Curricular Systems

52

(4)

The Creation and Re-Creation of Tradition

56

(2)

Discussion Questions

58

(1)

Further Reading

58

(2)

The Knowledge Economy

60

(14)

New Skills in the Workplace

60

(2)

Knowledge as a Trading Commodity

62

(2)

Educational Institutions in the Knowledge Economy: Universities

64

(2)

Education and the Knowledge Economy: Schools

66

(6)

Discussion Questions

72

(1)

Further Reading

73

(1)

Modernist Knowledge and Prejudice: Special Educational Needs

74

(14)

Introduction

74

(1)

Knowledge Systems: Science and Normality

74

(6)

Knowledge Protocols: Stratification and Normality

80

(6)

Discussion Questions

86

(1)

Further Reading

87

(1)

Knowledge and Warfare

88

(15)

Introduction

88

(1)

Foreign and First Language Policies

89

(3)

History and Cultural Studies

92

(2)

Religious Education

94

(3)

Scientific Research and Development Programmes

97

(2)

Military Training

99

(1)

Training in Conformity

100

(2)

Discussion Questions

102

(1)

Further Reading

102

(1)

State Knowledge and Identity

103

(13)

Marxism, Postmodernism and Educational Policy Formulation

103

(4)

Postmodernism and Curriculum Structure

107

(2)

State-Enforced Knowledge

109

(2)

Language, Curricula and Identity

111

(3)

Discussion Questions

114

(1)

Further Reading

115

(1)

References

116

(8)

Index

124

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Beyond the National Curriculum: Curricular Centralism and Cultural Diversity in Europe and the USA

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