Comparing Curriculum-Making Processes

Rosenmund, Moritz; Fries, Anna-Verena; Heller, Werner

ISBN 10: 3906768686 / ISBN 13: 9783906768687

Published by Swaziland: Peter Lang, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Comparing Curriculum-Making Processes
• Publisher: Swaziland: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3906768686
• ISBN 13: 9783906768687
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • education

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Synopsis

This book collects most of the papers presented in a symposium on curriculum research held in Zurich in December 1999. The contributions focus on curriculum-making between national and global codes, between politics and educational practice, between top-down control and bottom-up agreement. They look at curriculum-making as an enterprise of educational practitioners and they try to link the political and technical aspects of curriculum-making. While curriculum-making traditionally tends to stress a specific, national selection of educational goals and contents, it cannot neglect the existence of a global educational code as well as the pressures exerted on the selection of school knowledge and forms of school organisation by the global market. Do the global (cultural) code and the need for adaptation to globalisation reinforce a trend towards the convergence of different national educational systems in general and their curriculum-making processes in particular?

About the Author

The Editors: Moritz Rosenmund is head of the R&D department of the Pestalozzianum Zurich. Most recently he has been engaged in research on both school development as an adaptation to growing multiculturalism in Swiss schools and participation in curriculum-making.
Anna-Verena Fries is research assistant at the Pestalozzianum Zurich, Institute for teacher education, research and development. She is engaged in curriculum research and in curriculum-making processes.
Werner Heller is responsible for in-service training of teachers and members of local authorities for schools at the Pestalozzianum Zurich. He was engaged in several projects of the OECD and the Council of Europe in the field of education.