Knowledge at the Crossroads?: Physics and History in the Changing World of Schools and Universities

By Lyn Yates, Kate O'Connor, Victoria Millar, et al.

Book Overview

Introduction.- Chapter 1 Researching the changing world of education.- Part I: Re-thinking and reform of education today - Foundations and debates.- Chapter 2 Knowledge and education in the 21st century.- Chapter 3 History and physics as disciplines.- Chapter 4 New public management and the changing governance of universities.- Chapter 5 The changing agendas and governance of the school curriculum.- Part II Schools.- Chapter 6 Australian 'history wars': The contested purpose of history in the curriculum.- Chapter 7 The physics curriculum: What is the 'discipline' that needs to be nurtured?.- Chapter 8 Inward and outward facing knowledge: Curriculum purposes and slippages.- Part III Universities.- Chapter 9 'What does your discipline look like and how does it matter?' Historians and physicists talk.- Chapter 10 Disciplines and interdisciplinarity.- Chapter 11 Performance measurement and management.- Part IV: Knowledge, disciplinarity and the future.- Chapter 12 Regulation and governance in Australia: Implications for knowledge work.- Chapter 13 Genericism and specialisation: An ongoing problematic for schools and universities.- Chapter 14 Knowledge, disciplines, identities and the structuring of education.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811020795
• ISBN13: 9789811020797
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"