American Association for Teaching and Curriculum (AATC) 2012

Featured Books at this Event

1. Teaching Children's Literature

   It's Critical!

   By Christine Leland, Mitzi Lewison, Jerome Harste

   This groundbreaking text offers a fresh perspective on how to implement children’s literature into and across the curriculum in ways that are both effective and purposeful. Honed over years of experience and reflection in classroom settings and rich with real examples of teachers implementing...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Critical Curriculum Leadership

   A Framework for Progressive Education

   By Rose M. Ylimaki

   Although traditional curriculum and instructional leadership frameworks have dominated educational administration training for almost thirty years, it has become increasingly clear that even the most recent frameworks have failed today’s leaders who struggle with the politics of curriculum...

   Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Teaching and Learning from Within

   A Core Reflection Approach to Quality and Inspiration in Education

   Edited by Fred A. J. Korthagen, Younghee M. Kim, William L. Greene

   Teaching and Learning from Within brings together theory, research, and practice on core reflection, an approach that focuses on people’s strengths as the springboard for personal growth and serves every human being involved in education–including students, teachers, school principals, and...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. Transformative Leadership in Education

   Equitable Change in an Uncertain and Complex World

   By Carolyn M. Shields

   In the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world of education today, leaders need to take an engaged, activist, and courageous approach to help build optimistic futures for all students. Transformative Leadership in Education presents an alternative approach to leadership for deep and...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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