The content of secondary education around the world present position and strategic choices / Roger- François Gauthier.

Includes bibliography (p. 133-140).

Secondary education in the twenty-first century—cover page.

Primary education for young children concentrates on literacy and the acquisition of skills defined without giving rise to any controversy; higher education aims at specialized knowledge. What kind of education should be provided between these two stages? The predominant feeling at present is that this stage is of capital importance, since it is the stage at which the future worker, citizen and adult must be trained. Who, then, can deny that it would be a grave mistake to overlook the issue—back cover.

Contents: [01] Why do education policies constantly neglect content?—[02] How is the issue of content strategic?—[03] Educational heritage and the duty to take stock—[04] Rearranging the delivery of academic knowledge—[05] Education policy : questions on the general structure of content—[06] education policy : questions about the meaning of content—[07] encounters with some remarkable fields of knowledge—[08] decision-making on content and building a political dialogue—[09] conditions associated with the success of content policy—10] Summary for action : political choices and technical precautions.