Table Of ContentTransnational Perspectives
on Curriculum History
This book offers a remarkable range of research that emphasises the need to
analyse the shaping of curricula under historical, social and political variables.
Teachers’ life stories, the Cold War as a contextual element that framed
curricular transformations in the US and Europe, and the study of trends in
education policy at transnational level are issues addressed throughout. The
book presents new lines of work, offering multidisciplinary perspectives and
provides an overview of how to move forwards.
The book brings together the work of international specialists on
Curriculum History and presents research that offers new perspectives and
methodologies from which to approach the study of the History of Education
and Educational Policy. It offers new debates which rethink the historical
study of the curriculum and offers a strong interdisciplinary approach, with
contributions across Education, History and the Social Sciences.
This book will be of great interest for academics and researchers in the
fields of education and curriculum studies. It will also appeal to educational
professionals, teachers and policy makers.
Gary McCulloch is the inaugural Brian Simon Professor of the History of
Education at UCL Institute of Education, UK.
Ivor Goodson is Full Professor of Learning Theory at Education Research
Centre, University of Brighton, UK.
Mariano González-Delgado is Assistant Professor of History of Education
at Universidad de La Laguna, Spain.
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Transnational Perspectives
on Curriculum History
Edited by Gary McCulloch,
Ivor Goodson and Mariano
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Introduction: Curriculum history and transnational
perspectives for studies: Generating debates on
educational research 1
GARY MCCULLOCH, IVOR GOODSON, AND MARIANO GONZÁLEZ-DELGADO
1 From mystification to markets: The evolution of curriculum
history and life history 12
IVOR GOODSON
2 Physics for the enquiring mind: The Nuffield physics
Ordinary-level course, 1962–1966 27
GARY MCCULLOCH
3 Narratives of education and curriculum transition in the
former socialist European countries: The example of Estonia 41
RAIN MIKSER AND IVOR GOODSON
4 African American curriculum history: New possibilities
and directions 63
LAGARRETT J. KING, ALANA D. MURRAY, AND CHRISTINE WOYSHNER
5 UNESCO mediation in Francoist curriculum policy:
The case of educational television in Spain 83
MARIANO GONZÁLEZ-DELGADO AND TAMAR GROVES
vi Contents
6 Transnational information flow and domestic concerns:
Japanese educational exhibits in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries in Britain 108
MARI HIRAOKA
7 Local versus national history of education: The case of
Swedish school governance, 1950–1990 131
JOHAN PRYTZ AND JOHANNA RINGARP
8 Curriculum history research in mainland China and Taiwan:
Its status and prospect 149
CAIXIA PENG
9 Transnational colonial entanglements: South African teacher
education college curricula 163
LINDA CHISHOLM
10 The failure of a pedagogical innovation: Learning to write in
Brazil and France at the end of the nineteenth century 181
DIANA GONÇALVES VIDAL
11 The two faces of the same coin: National and individual
refraction in curriculum policies in Portugal 198
ELSA ESTRELA
Conclusions: Transnational perspectives on Curriculum History 221
GARY MCCULLOCH, IVOR GOODSON, AND MARIANO GONZÁLEZ-DELGADO
Index 227
Figures
6.1 ‘ The Japanese Court in the International Exhibition’ 111
6.2 ‘ Our Insane-itary Guide to the Health Exhibition XII’ 116
6.3 ‘ Educational System of Japan’ 119
6.4 ‘ Japanese Educational Exhibit at the Japan–British Exhibition
of 1910’ 124
6.5 ‘ I was so tired after doing the rounds at the Exhibition!’ 125
6.6 ‘ Leaves from an Artist’s Sketch-book: the Anglo-Japanese
Exhibition, as seen by Frank Reynolds’ 126
6.7 ‘ The Japanese Village’ 127
11.1 T en competency areas in Students’ Profile by the End of
Compulsory Schooling 205
11.2 T eachers’ curriculum represented as the set of subjects and
syllabuses hierarchically organised 208
11.3 T eachers’ curriculum represented as a path, a guideline that
fosters students’ transformation 209
11.4 T eachers’ curriculum represented as a jail 209
Tables
5.1 UNESCO mediation in Francoist curriculum policy: The case
of educational television in Spain. Mariano González-Delgado
and Tamar Groves 96
5.2 CENIDE/INCIE and UNESCO scholarships financed by the
World Bank, the Ford Foundation and the UNDP, 1970–1976 97
5.3 Experts/Consultants in charge of UNDP 98
Contributors
Linda Chisholm is a Professor in the Centre for Education Rights and
Transformation of the Education Faculty at the University of Johannesburg,
South Africa. She has published widely on the historical, contemporary and
comparative aspects of education policy and curriculum in South Africa
and the region. Her most recent book is: Teacher Preparation in South Africa:
History, Policy and Future Directions (Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing,
2019).
Elsa Estrela is currently an Assistant Professor at ULHT, Lisbon, Portugal,
Executive Project Manager at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for
Education and Development (CeiED) and external expert in the pedagogi-
cal innovation pilot project at Boa Água school cluster. Teacher of Basic
and Secondary Education (1993), she holds a Master’s degree in educational
sciences (2006) and a PhD in Education (2015). She was a member of the
Ibero-American Network for Research in Educational Policies (RIAIPE)
and the Education, Research and Training Policy Observatory.
Mari Hiraoka is a Historian of Education researching both Japan and Britain
as well as the historical relationship between the two countries in the field
of education. Her major research interest is in the flow of information from
Japan to Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, of
which she has examined origin, contents and effects. Having completed her
PhD at UCL Institute of Education, University of London, UK, she cur-
rently teaches at several universities in Japan.
Mariano González-Delgado is Associate Professor of History of Education
at Universidad de La Laguna, Spain. His research focuses in Curriculum
History and the transnational dimension in History of Education and text-
books. He has been visiting researcher at UCL Institute of Education (2014)
and Uppsala University (2018) and has contributed to different journals of
History of Education.
Ivor Goodson is Full Professor of Learning Theory at Education Research
Centre, University of Brighton, UK. Professor Goodson has spent the
last 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and
