041515832X.Routledge.The.Primary.Curriculum.Learning.from.International.Perspectives.Feb.1998.pdf

THE PRIMARY CURRICULUM

This book is concerned with the relationships and tensions in education

between children’s needs and societies’ demands, tensions which primary

teachers everywhere face on a daily basis.

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 a national

curriculum seem to the teacher to be inappropriate or irrelevant to

children’s needs, the teacher may be faced with a conflict 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 international pespectives 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, south-

east Asia, Europe and the USA.

Janet Moyles is Senior Lecturer, and Linda Hargreaves Lecturer in the

School of Education, University of Leicester, UK.

THE PRIMARY

CURRICULUM

Learning from international perspectives

Edited by

Janet Moyles and Linda Hargreaves

London and New York

First published 1998

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter

invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any

information storage or retrieval system, without permission in

writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

The Primary Curriculum: learning from international

perspectives/edited by Janet Moyles and Linda Hargreaves.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Education, Elementary—Curricula—Cross-cultural studies.

2. Curriculum planning—Cross-cultural studies. 3. Curriculum

change—Cross-cultural studies. I. Moyles, Janet R.

II. Hargreaves, Linda.

LB1570.P678 1998 97–17424

372019–dc21

CIP

ISBN 0-203-05802-X Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-16288-9 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-15832-X (Print Edition)

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