School Curriculum

Originally published in 1971. In a comparative study of the strategies adopted to date in the U.S.A., England, Scotland and France, this book looks at the considerable reforms effected in these countries and considers the need for an adequate curriculum theory.

List of contents

Introduction 1. New Trends in Curriculum Planning Part 1: The Management of Innovation: Practice 2. American Education Makes Up for Lost Time 3. Response to Change: The English Experience 4. New Directions for a New Society: The French Transformation 5. Authors, Authorities and Authoritarianism Part 2: The Management of Innovation: Theory 6. Learning Situations into Life Situations 7. Aims and/or Objectives? Death is the Only Terminal Behaviour 8. What Knowledge is of Any Worth? 9. 'Christ, What a Way to Grow Up!’: The Drop-Out Generation 10. Stuff and Nonsense in the Curriculum

About the author

W. Kenneth Richmond

Summary

Originally published in 1971. In a comparative study of the strategies adopted to date in the U.S.A., England, Scotland and France, this book looks at the considerable reforms effected in these countries and considers the need for an adequate curriculum theory.

Product details

• Authors: Richmond, W Kenneth Richmond, W. Kenneth Richmond
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138319073
• ISBN: 978-1-138-31907-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Curriculum; Routledge Library Editions: Curriculum
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries