Download or read book Knowledge and the Curriculum (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 12) written by Paul H. Hirst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume provide a coherent philosophical study of a group of important and pressing educational issues such as the selection of objectives for less able children, the fundamental characteristics of teaching and the integration of the curriculum. A thesis on the necessary differentiation of knowledge into logically distinct forms is outlined, and is defended against recent philosophical criticisms. Its implications for curriculum planning are examined, with particular reference to the urgent problems of adeqately characterizing liberal education and those forms of moral and religious education that are appropriate in maintained schools.