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

by Aaron Benavot

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, scholars with diverse backgrounds and conceptual frameworks explore how economic, political, social and ideological forces impact on school...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402057350
• ISBN13: 9781402057359
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"