The Process of Curriculum Development

The process of curriculum development is highly practical, as Goodson shows in this enlarged anniversary third edition of his seminal work.

Development of School Subjects

The position of subjects and their development within the curriculum is illustrated by looking at how school subjects, in particular, geography and biology, gained academic and intellectual respectability within the whole curriculum during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Subject Formation and Accreditation

He highlights how subjects owe their formation and accreditation to competing status and their power to compete in the provision of ''worthwhile'' knowledge and considers subjects as continually changing sub-groups of information.

Subjects and Society

Such subjects from the framework of the society in which individuals live and over which they have influence.

Curriculum Development in a Post-Modernist Age

This volume questions the basis on which subject disciplines are developed and formulates new possibilities for curriculum development and reform in a post-modernist age.