The Foundations and Futures of Education series focuses on key emergingissues in education as well as continuing debates within the field. The seriesis interdis... » 

The Foundations and Futures of Education series focuses on key emergingissues in education as well as continuing debates within the field. The seriesis interdisciplinary and includes historical philosophical sociologicalpsychological and comparative perspectives on three major themes the purposesand nature of education increasing interdisciplinary within the subject andthe theorypractice divide.In recent years much curriculum debate has focused less on wider issuesrelated to the purposes of education and more on the content and delivery ofschool curricula themselves including new and revised national curricula.Schooling Society and Curriculum seeks to return curriculum studies tocritical generic debates about formal education and its relationships to thewider society reminding readers of the key curriculum debates that have beenpresent since formal state education began and reassessing them in the contextof current curricular trends and polices. The approach goes further howeverby placing such debates within a futureorientated perspective and focusing onsome of the key emerging issues of the twentyfirst century. These include globalization and reconstructed nationalism a revived interest and understanding of what it means to be a good citizen developments in the areas of cultural pluralism the rapid development of digital technology and its impact on learning changing relationships between the state and the market and their impacton formal education.The book part of the Foundations and Futures of Education Series addressesthese issues through eleven essays by prominent nationally andinternationallyknown experts. Centrally it looks at what it is young people need from a schoolcurriculum to help them develop as happy socially responsible adults capableof managing and making the most of a very unpredictable future. «