South African curriculum studies
a historical perspective and autobiographical account
pp. 177-200
Abstract
In this essay I wish to trace the history of South African curriculum studies of the past 30 years through an autobiographical account of my engagement with both the field and the term curriculum. It was as a school learner in the decade of the 1970s that I first heard the term curriculum being used and understood it to mean the collection of school subjects taken in a particular grade. My understanding of the term curriculum and the field of curriculum studies has since expanded and this essay bears testimony to this.
Publication details
Published in:
Pinar William F. (2010) Curriculum studies in South Africa: intellectual histories & present circumstances. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 177-200
Full citation:
Le Grange Lesley (2010) „South African curriculum studies: a historical perspective and autobiographical account“, In: W. F. Pinar (ed.), Curriculum studies in South Africa, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 177–200.