Expanding Curriculum Theory, Second Edition carries through the major focus of the original volume to reflect on the influence of Deleuze and Guattari s concept of "lines of flight" and its application to curriculum theorizing. What is different is that the lines of flight have since shifted and produced expanded understandings of this concept for curriculum theory and for education in general. This edition reflects the impact of events that have contributed to this shift, in particular the (il)logic of school policy changes and reforms in the past decade, and the continued explosion of...

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?

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Education and Social Dynamics offers a new approach to analyzing curriculum change by investigating the entanglement of education and society in markedly heterogeneous Turkey, which has recently witnessed nation-wide curriculum reforms. While the new curriculum has attempted to homogenize all Turkish primary schools since 2005, Nohl and Somel, drawing on a theoretical differentiation of social entities, reveal how subsequent curricular practices have had to account for the diversity of milieus and organizations in the nation's educational sector, and how inequality and competition...

The question at the heart of the book is what might an education with self-care and care-for-others look like? Juxtaposing self-understanding through the method of currere and the historical character of hakbeolism (a concept indigenous to Korea referring to a kind of social status people achieve based on a shared academic background), this book articulates how subjective reconstruction of self in conjunction with historical study can be transformative, and how this can be extended to social change. Articulating how having one's own standard can be a way of making one's life...

In this work of curriculum theory, Ed Douglas McKnight addresses and explores the intersections between place (with specific discussion of Kincheloe's and Pinar's conceptualization of place and identity) and race (specifically Winthrop Jordan's historical analysis of race as an Anglo-European construction that became the foundation of a white mythos). To that end, he employs a form of narrative construction called curriculum vitae (course of life)--a method of locating and delineating identity formation which addresses how theories of place, race and identity formation play out in a...

Situated within the contemporary U.S. scholarly curriculum studies field that concerns itself directly now with "worldly" influences on its work both within and without America, this book addresses current tensions in the field, writ large. It does so by tracing the antecedents of these tensions as the U.S. field has moved toward internationalization, and by conceptualizing notions of "working tensions" and "communities without consensus" as possible ways to resist eradicating diversity or colonizing differences as the field grapples with issues and dilemmas spawned by such...

A presence for decades in individuals everyday life practices and identity formation, the Walt Disney Company has more recently also become an influential element within the "big" curriculum of public and private spaces outside of yet in proximity to formal educational institutions. "Disney, Culture, and Curriculum" explores the myriad ways that Disney s curricula and pedagogies manifest in public consciousness, cultural discourses, and the education system. Examining Disney s historical development and contemporary manifestations, this book critiques and deconstructs its products and...

Institution and practice are the key concepts which guide and illuminate the central thesis of the book: To be...

Bridging the gap between interpretations of "Third Way" Platonic scholarship and "phenomenological-ontological" scholarship, this book argues for a unique ontological-hermeneutic interpretation of Plato and Plato s Socrates. Reconceptualizing Plato s Socrates at the Limit of Education offers a re-reading of Plato and Plato s Socrates in terms of interpreting the practice of education as care for the soul through the conceptual lenses of phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, and ontological inquiry.

Magrini contrasts his re-reading with the views of Plato and...

In The Mythopoetics of Currere, Doll uses depth psychology, myth, and literature to offer a new approach to currere, the root of curriculum, through essays exploring significant literary images that open doorways into the fictions that layer the self. Offering a focus on the body, queer love, false belief, strangeness, otherness, and chaos, this book suggests new metaphors for understanding why currere is what matters most in curriculum.