The Invention of the Secondary Curriculum [Hardcover]

Across much of the world there is now a standard secondary school curriculum based on a traditional array of subjects. This is the first work to tell the story of its invention, from the sixteenth century until the present day. The book concludes with a sketch of an alternative: a curriculum based on a well-argued set of fundamental aims.1550-1630 1630-1700 The Eighteenth Century The Nineteenth Century 1900-1988 Into the Twenty-first Century Beyond the Traditional Curriculum

Society for Educational Studies Book Prize 2012 Winner - 2nd Prize

JOHN WHITE Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.