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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