School Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Primary Curricular Categories in the Twentieth Century

by David H. Kamens, John W. Meyer, Aaron Benavot

Book Overview

First published in 1992, this book presents unique quantitative data on the content coverage of primary education in a large number of countries since 1920. It demonstrates that these curricular outlines tend to be surprisingly similar across very disparate countries, and suggests the world processes that produced this result.

Specifically, the study shows that the contemporary primary curriculum dates from changes in the late nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415788587
• ISBN13: 9780415788588
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"