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The Global Curriculum: Rethinking School From The Perspective Of Education, Pablo Del Río, Amelia Álvarez
The Global Curriculum: Rethinking School From The Perspective Of Education, Pablo Del Río, Amelia Álvarez
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This paper brings together educational proposals based on a framework derived from the perspectives of historic-cultural and genetic-cultural theory. This framework enables us to specify the goals, realities and alternatives for renewal in the educational task, and to highlight a series of recommended reorientations for tackling education in a changing world. These reorientations imply a switching of attention: from the current emphasis on knowledge as an end in itself, towards a greater attention to the tools and operators of knowledge; from an emphasis on individual tasks to a greater concern with shared activities as the origin of mental operations; and …