Cover -- The Primary Curriculum -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I - Primary Curricula: Origins and Influences -- 1. Historical and Philosophical Influences on the Primary Curriculum -- 2. The Concept of a Developmental Curriculum -- 3. The Primary National Curriculum in England: a Sociological Perspective -- 4. Changing Primary/elementary School Curricula: an Analysis of the English Experience 1862-2012 -- 5. Making a Curriculum: Some Principles of Curriculum Building -- Part II - Primary Curricula:internationalcontexts Andperspectives -- Introduction -- 6. Primary Education for the Rural Black Southafrican Child -- 7. Primary Curriculum: Two Perspectives from Japan -- 8. Relationships and Tensions in the Primary Curriculumof the United States -- 9. Primary Education: an Australian Perspective -- 10.Primary Schooling in Hong Kong -- 11.Curricula Across Cultures: Contexts and Connections -- Endpiece -- Index.