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 curricula...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9628093525
• ISBN13: 9789628093526
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher