Curriculum in today's world: Configuring knowledge, identities, work and politics

Abstract

Curriculum's story of the world has always been inuenced by politics. Sometimes, especially in proposals to change what is taught as national history, or in the curriculum changes that follow major political events such as the ending of apartheid in South Africa, the political direction of curriculum is explicit. But oen its politics and sources and motives are obscure, indirect. ere is the real and reasonable space and time that it takes to make any sense of events, reected not just in topics, in what is said, but in the ways disciplines of human and cultural inquiry develop over time. en there is the overt concern of schooling with young people's cognitive development, and the sorting and ..