Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History

Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History
Author: Gary McCulloch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2019-11-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429887523

This book offers a remarkable range of research that emphasises the need to analyse the shaping of curricula under historical, social and political variables. Teachers’ life stories, the Cold War as a contextual element that framed curricular transformations in the US and Europe, and the study of trends in education policy at transnational level are issues addressed throughout. The book presents new lines of work, offering multidisciplinary perspectives and provides an overview of how to move forwards. The book brings together the work of international specialists on Curriculum History and presents research that offers new perspectives and methodologies from which to approach the study of the History of Education and Educational Policy. It offers new debates which rethink the historical study of the curriculum and offers a strong interdisciplinary approach, with contributions across Education, History and the Social Sciences. This book will be of great interest for academics and researchers in the fields of education and curriculum studies. It will also appeal to educational professionals, teachers and policy makers.

Politics and the History Curriculum

Politics and the History Curriculum
Author: K. Erekson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137008946

The politicians and pastors who revised the Texas social studies standards made worldwide headlines. Politics and the History Curriculum sets the debate over the Texas standards within a broad context of politics, religion, media, and education, providing a clear analysis of these events and recommendations for teachers and policy makers.

The New Math

The New Math
Author: Christopher James Phillips
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015
Genre: Education
ISBN: 022618496X

An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. This book examines the rise and fall of the new math as a marker of the period's political and social ferment.

Understanding Education

Understanding Education
Author: Stephen Kemmis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811064334

This short book provides an introduction to the study of education, outlining the dual purpose of education – to help people live well and to help develop a world worth living in. It argues that education initiates people into forms of understanding, modes of activity, and ways of relating to each other and the world that not only help individuals to live good lives, but also help secure a culture based on reason, productive and sustainable economies and environments, and just and democratic societies. Subsequent chapters address the history of education in the West; explore how education reproduces the practices and forms of life in societies and groups, and also how it transforms them; and introduce the theory of practice architectures to explain what practices are composed of, and how they are enabled and constrained by local and more general conditions and circumstances. The book closes by showing how the theory of practice architectures unfolds to offer a theory of education – a theory that underpins the definition of education offered at the start of the book. Understanding Education is essential reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of education.

Nationhood and Politicization of History in School Textbooks

Nationhood and Politicization of History in School Textbooks
Author: Gorana Ognjenović
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-02-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030381218

This book explores how school history textbooks are used to perpetuate nationalistic policies within divided regions. Exploring the ‘divide and rule’ politics across ex-Yugoslav successor states, the editors and contributors draw upon a wide range of case studies from across the region. Textbooks and other educational media provide the foundations upon which the new generation build understanding about their own context and the events that are creating their present. By promoting nationalistic politics in such media, textbooks themselves can be used as tools to further promote and preserve ongoing hostility between ethnic groups following periods of conflict. This edited collection will appeal to scholars of educational media, history education and post-conflict societies.

The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1904
Genre: City and town life
ISBN:

Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story

Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story
Author: Ruby Bridges
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1338106945

The extraordinary true story of Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to integrate a New Orleans school -- now with simple text for young readers! In 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through an angry crowd and into a school, changing history. This is the true story of an extraordinary little girl who became the first Black person to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. With simple text and historical photographs, this easy reader explores an amazing moment in history and celebrates the courage of a young girl who stayed strong in the face of racism.

Politics and the History Curriculum

Politics and the History Curriculum
Author: K. Erekson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137008946

The politicians and pastors who revised the Texas social studies standards made worldwide headlines. Politics and the History Curriculum sets the debate over the Texas standards within a broad context of politics, religion, media, and education, providing a clear analysis of these events and recommendations for teachers and policy makers.

A History of Bilingual Education in the US

A History of Bilingual Education in the US
Author: Sarah C. K. Moore
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2021-03-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1788924258

This book traces a history of bilingual education in the US, unveiling the role of politics in policy development and implementation. It introduces readers to past systemic supports for creation of diverse bilingual educational programs and situates particular instances and phases of expansion and decline within related sociopolitical backdrops.

History Teaching, Nationhood and the State

History Teaching, Nationhood and the State
Author: Robert Phillips
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This book explores the politics of the 'Great History Debate' and explains why history became so controversial. It also provides a case study of how late 20th century education policy was conceived, created and contested.