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Schooling as an Agency of Education: Some Implications for Curriculum Theory

Westbury, Ian

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Title
Schooling as an Agency of Education: Some Implications for Curriculum Theory
Author(s)
Westbury, Ian
Issue Date
1980
Keyword(s)
  • curriculum research
  • Educational theory
  • Pedagogy
  • Institutionalism
  • Classrooms
  • School curricula
  • History of classrooms
Geographic Coverage
  • United States
  • England
Abstract
This chapter, first presented in 1974, sought to outline a framework for an empirical field of curriculum. It reviews some then-recent research on classrooms and their history and the school curriculum in England and the United States one agency for education and the implications of ths view for how curriculum scholars might understand their field and its dilemmas..
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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