School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Benavot, Aaron (Editor), Braslavsky, Cecilia (Editor), Truong, Nhung (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education ; 18
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Sociology.; Curriculum Studies.; International and Comparative Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology, general.

School curricula are established not only to prepare young people for a real world, but also to beckon an imagined one anchored in individual rights and collective progress. Both worlds—the real and the imagined—increasingly reflect influential trans-national forces. In this special edited volume, s...