Introduction: Defining the Curriculum: Histories and Ethnographies Stephen Ball and Ivor Goodson.
Part1: Theory and Method. Making a Vice of Our Virtues: Some Notes on Theory in Ethnography and History Martyn Hammersley. Subjects for Study: Towards a Social History of Curriculum Ivor Goodson. On Explaining Change in School Subjects Barry Cooper.
Part2: Histories Curricular Topics as Institutional Categories: Implications for Theory and Research in the History & Sociology of School Subjects William A Reid. The Play House and the Sand Tray Clem Adelman. The Experience of Schooling for Working-Class Boys and Girls in Nineteenth Century England June Purvis. Imperialism, Social Control and the Colonial Curriculum in Africa Stephen J Ball. Ethnographic and Historical Method in the Study of Schooling Louis M Smith.
Part3: Ethnographies ‘It’s Not a Proper Subject: It’s Just Newsom’ Robert G Burgess. Pupil Perceptions of Subject Status Lynda Measor. The Amorphous School John Player. Teacher, Self and Curriculum Peter Woods. Seals of Approval: An Analysis of English Examinations Douglas Barnes and John Seed. Contributors. Index.