Reconceptualizing Curriculum Development: Inspiring and Informing Action

ISBN-13: 9780415704274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 238 str.

James Henderson;And Colleagues

Opis

Reconceptualizing Curriculum Development provides accessible, clear guidance on curriculum problem solving and educational leadership through the practice of a synoptic curriculum study. This practice integrates three influential interpretations of curriculum curriculum as deliberative artistry, curriculum as complicated conversation, and curriculum as "currere" with John Dewey s lifetime work on reflective inquiry. At its heart, the book advances "a way of studying "as "a way of living "with reference to the question: How might I live as a democratic educator?

The study guidance is organized as an open-ended scaffolding of three embedded reflective inquiries informed by four deliberative conversations. Study recommendations are provided by a carefully selected team. The field-tested study-based approach is illustrated through a multi-layered, multi-voiced narrative collage of four experienced teachers personal journeys of understanding in a collegial study context. Applying William Pinar s argument that a "conceptual montage" enabling teachers to lead complicated conversations should be the focus for curriculum development in the field s current post-reconceptualist moment, the book moves forward the educational aim of facilitating a holistic subject/self/social understanding through the practice of a balanced hermeneutics of suspicion and trust. It closes with a discussion of cross-cultural collaboration and advocacy, reflecting the interest of curriculum scholars in a wide range of countries in this study-based, lead-learning approach to curriculum development."

O autorze

James G. Henderson is Co-Coordinator, Teacher Leader Endorsement Program, Kent State University, USA.