ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 deals with issues pertaining to the formation of a school subject or a course of study from the perspective of schooling as an institution. It starts with looking at diverse conceptions of the central aim of schooling embedded in various curriculum conceptions and discourses in the policy arena. It next analyses and unpacks the differences and relationships between school subjects and academic disciplines. This is followed by a discussion of the formation of a school subject in terms of three levels of curriculum making – the policy, the programmatic and the classroom – and of three kinds of knowledge questions pertaining to what is taught and learnt in school and classroom.
