Transnational Synergies in School Mathematics and Science Debates

• Main Authors: Openshaw, Roger (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Walshaw, Margaret (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Excellence and Equity in Global Education
• Subjects: Mathematics-Study and teaching .; Education-History.; Science education.; International education .; Comparative education.; Schools.; Mathematics Education.; History of Education.; Science Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Schools and Schooling.

This book highlights and interrogates the continued interest and scrutiny of mathematics and science education. National debates on excellence and equity tend to focus largely on underachievement in mathematics and science rather than subjects in the arts or music: this is due to a belief that these...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introducing transnational synergies in school mathematics and science debates
• Chapter 2. Interrogating equity and excellence
• Chapter 3. Mathematics and science equity of the interwar years
• Chapter 4. The rise and fall of P.S.S.C. physics
• Chapter 5. The ascent of the 'New Mathematics', 1957-1970
• Chapter 6. Repurposing mathematics and science
• Chapter 7. Major overhauls of the education system
• Chapter 8. Unpacking curricula and standards
• Chapter 9. Ramping up accountability
• Chapter 10. Looking back and looking forward.