The Primary curriculum: Learning from international perspectives

The Primary curriculum: Learning from international perspectives

• Moyles, Janet R.
• Hargreaves, Linda

London ; New York

Routledge

1998

• D Curriculum
  • DD Primary Education Programmes

Education, Elementary -- Curricula -- Cross--Cultural Studies Curriculum Planning -- Cross--Cultural Studies Curriculum Change -- Cross--Cultural Studies

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

The existence in many countries of national curricula might be expected to ease part of the stress felt by teachers by prescribing what should be taught and, possibly, how it should be taught, thus removing from them the individual responsibility of ensuring a broad and balanced curriculum for each child. If, however, the content and methods suggested by anational curriculum seem to the teacher to be inappropriate or irrelevant to children's needs, the teacher may be faced with aconflict likely to increase the levels of stress he or she suffers. The younger the children, the more their immediate needs and interests will appear to compete with remote long-term societal needs likely to be emphasised in a national curriculum. This book seeks to present a range of internationalpespectives on the interplay between childhood, curriculum and classroom practice. The first part of the book offers a framework for thinking about primary curricula, while the second part presents a range of international views on the primary curriculum from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, southeast Asia, Europe and the USA.

• English

Books

• 041515832X

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/0820e2c7

2011-06-16