Curriculum History in Europe: A Historiographic Added Value
This article advocates for a particular understanding of curriculum history that enables educational research to emancipate itself from national idiosyncrasies. It suggests focusing, in the frame of a cultural history, on the interrelation between the constitutions, which define the ideal social or...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Danish |
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Umeå University
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Nordic Journal of Educational History |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.ub.umu.se/index.php/njedh/article/view/65 |
| Summary: | This article advocates for a particular understanding of curriculum history that enables educational research to emancipate itself from national idiosyncrasies. It suggests focusing, in the frame of a cultural history, on the interrelation between the constitutions, which define the ideal social order and the envisaged ideal citizens, and the curriculum, which provides “educational opportunities” – that is, pre-organised or preconfigured pathways of educational careers. The article thereby stresses that the fundamental notions of this research program – nation, society, and citizen – need to be handled as floating signifiers that are materialised differently in the various individual nation-states. The article argues that against this background, a European education history that respects national or cultural distinctions without getting trapped by national idiosyncrasies is possible.
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| ISSN: | 2001-7766 2001-9076 |