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Direct linkCatling, Simon; Martin, Fran – Curriculum Journal, 2011
The argument has been propounded that academic disciplines and school subjects provide a powerful, authoritative knowledge which is key to enabling children to better understand the world in which they live. Inherent in this perspective is that children's experience, knowledge and understanding are poorly formed and of limited everyday use and…
Descriptors: Children, Geography Instruction, Ethnocentrism, Prior Learning
Winter, Christine – Curriculum Journal, 2011
This study is interested in understanding the configurations of knowledge underpinning three examples of curriculum policy texts in the specific case of the school subject of geography. The three policy texts are the 1991 Geography National Curriculum (GNC), the "Opening minds" curriculum and the GNC 2007. I start with the proposal that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy
