Educational Studies

Curricular Conversations

Play is the (Missing) Thing

By Margaret Macintyre Latta

Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

The central theme of Curricular Conversations is this: Play is the thing that brings aesthetic curricular complications near educators and their students, making the lived consequences very vivid, tangible, and possible. Viewing curriculum as genuine inquiry into what is worth knowing, rather than...

Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge

Subjectivity, Curriculum, and Society

Between and Beyond the German Didaktik and Anglo-American Curriculum Studies

By Tero Autio

Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

In this book Tero Autio traces not only the key philosophical currents that structure traditional Anglo-American instrumental curriculum theory and Didaktik theories of curriculum which are lesser-known in the U.S., but also the divide between them and, implicitly, the opportunities for traversing...

Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge

The Education of Eros

A History of Education and the Problem of Adolescent Sexuality

By Dennis L. Carlson

Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

The Education of Eros is the first and only comprehensive history of sexuality education and the “problem” of adolescent sexuality from the mid-20th century to the beginning of the 21st. It explores how professional health educators, policy makers, and social and religious conservatives differed in...

To Be Published August 9th 2013 by Routledge

Disavowed Knowledge

Psychoanalysis, Education, and Teaching

By Peter Maas Taubman

Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

This is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. Relying on primary and secondary sources, it provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis. In considering what it means to think...

Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge

Engendering Curriculum History

By Petra Hendry

Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

How can curriculum history be re-envisioned from a feminist, poststructuralist perspective? Engendering Curriculum History disrupts dominant notions of history as linear, as inevitable progress, and as embedded in the individual. This conversation requires a history that seeks re-memberance not...

Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge

International Handbook of Curriculum Research

2nd Edition

Edited by William F. Pinar

Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

Continuing its calling to define the field and where it is going, the Second Edition of this landmark handbook brings up to date its comprehensive reportage of scholarly developments and school curriculum initiatives worldwide, providing a panoramic view of the state of curriculum studies globally....

To Be Published August 21st 2013 by Routledge

What Is Curriculum Theory?

2nd Edition

By William F. Pinar

Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) asks readers to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to become "educated" in the present moment. Curriculum theory is the scholarly...

Published August 2nd 2011 by Routledge

Critical Dispositions

Evidence and Expertise in Education

By Greg Dimitriadis

Set against the current proliferation of global "difference" and economic realignment, Critical Dispositions explores the notions of "evidence" and "expertise" in times of material scarcity. Both have come to the forefront of national and international debate in education as "evidence" and "...

Published March 8th 2012 by Routledge

Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era

Teaching and Learning in an Age of Accountability, 3rd Edition

By Patrick Slattery

This landmark text was one of the first to introduce and analyze contemporary concepts of curriculum that emerged from the Reconceptualization of curriculum studies in the 1970s and 1980s. This new edition brings readers up to date on the major research themes (postmodernism,ecological,...

Published August 26th 2012 by Routledge

Problematizing Public Pedagogy

Edited by Jake Burdick, Jennifer A. Sandlin, Michael P. O'Malley

The term ‘public pedagogy’ is given a variety of definitions and meanings by those who employ it. It is often used without adequately explicating its meaning, its context, or its location within differing and contested articulations of the construct. Problematizing Public Pedagogy brings together...

To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge

Curriculum, Syllabus Design and Equity

A Primer and Model

Edited by Allan Luke, Annette Woods, Katie Weir

Curriculum scholars and teachers working for social justice and equity have been caught up in acrimonious and polarizing political debates over content, ideology, and disciplinary knowledge. At the forefront in cutting through these debates and addressing the practical questions involved, this book...

Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge

Profound Improvement

Building Capacity for a Learning Community, 2nd Edition

By Coral Mitchell, Larry Sackney

Series: Contexts of Learning

The book discusses the idea of the learning community as a vehicle for professional learning and school development. As the authors show, the learning community develops in response to building capacity in three domains: personal, interpersonal and organizational. In the personal domain, educators...

Published March 15th 2011 by Routledge

The Curriculum Studies Reader

4th Edition

Edited by David J. Flinders, Stephen Thornton

For fifteen years, The Curriculum Studies Reader has been a field-defining anthology, bringing together the best scholarship from curriculum studies’ past and present. From John Dewey’s nineteenth-century creed to Nel Noddings’ twenty-first century aims, this thoughtful combination of new and...

Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge