Curriculum politics, policy, practice : cases in comparative context / Catherine Cornbleth, editor.

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Cornbleth, Catherine

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TextSeries: SUNY series, innovations in curriculumPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0585324018
9780585324012

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Curriculum politics, policy, practice.DDC classification:

379.1/55 21

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LC71.3 .C87 2000eb

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Contents:

Viewpoints / Catherine Cornbleth -- A Tale of Two Cultures and a Technology: A/musical Politics of Curriculum in Four Acts / Vivian Forssman, John Willinsky -- Science for All Americans?: Critiquing Science Education Reform / Margery D. Osborne, Angela Calabrese-Barton -- The Politics of Religious Knowledge in Singapore / Jason Tan -- The Segregation of Stephen / Diana Lawrence-Brown -- "They Don't Want to Hear it": Ways of Talking and Habits of the Heart in Multicultural Literature Classrooms / Suzanne Miller, Gina DeBlase Trzyna -- Curriculum as a Site of Memory: The Struggle for History in South Africa / Nadine Dolby -- Understanding Shifts in British Educational Discourses of Social Justice / Gaby Weiner -- National Standards and Curriculum as Cultural Containment? / Catherine Cornbleth.

Summary: Annotation Offering a range of studies on the intersections of curriculum politics, policy, and/or practice, this book addresses the following questions: Who decides what is taught in K-12 schools? On what basis? What actually happens in classroom practice? What do students have opportunities to learn? Who benefits from these decisions and practices? It includes case studies that span school levels, subject areas, and national boundaries, thus enriching the possibilities for cross-case analysis, interpretation, and insight.Curriculum dynamics are revealed in cases ranging from the macro -- as in the case from South Africa -- to the micro -- as in the case of U.S. special education placement. Instances of curriculum politics, policy, and/or practice are brought to life and situated in their contemporary and historical contexts with particular attention to questions of knowledge control and distribution of benefits.

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Annotation Offering a range of studies on the intersections of curriculum politics, policy, and/or practice, this book addresses the following questions: Who decides what is taught in K-12 schools? On what basis? What actually happens in classroom practice? What do students have opportunities to learn? Who benefits from these decisions and practices? It includes case studies that span school levels, subject areas, and national boundaries, thus enriching the possibilities for cross-case analysis, interpretation, and insight.Curriculum dynamics are revealed in cases ranging from the macro -- as in the case from South Africa -- to the micro -- as in the case of U.S. special education placement. Instances of curriculum politics, policy, and/or practice are brought to life and situated in their contemporary and historical contexts with particular attention to questions of knowledge control and distribution of benefits.

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