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Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

Series Editor: William F. Pinar

In this age of multimedia information overload, scholars and students may not be able to keep up with the proliferation of different topical, trendy book series in the field of curriculum theory. It will be a relief to know that one publisher offers a balanced, solid, forward-looking series devoted to significant and enduring scholarship, as opposed to a narrow range of topics or a single approach or point of view. This series is conceived as the series busy scholars and students can trust and depend on to deliver important scholarship in the various "discourses" that comprise the increasingly complex field of curriculum theory.

The range of the series is both broad (all of curriculum theory) and limited (only important, lasting scholarship) – including but not confined to historical, philosophical, critical, multicultural, feminist, comparative, international, aesthetic, and spiritual topics and approaches. Books in this series are intended for scholars and for students at the doctoral and, in some cases, master's levels.

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1-10 of 34 results in Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
  1. 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

  2. What Is Curriculum Theory?

    By William F. Pinar

    Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

    This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) asks students 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." Curriculum theory is presented as the interdisciplinary...

    Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge

  3. 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

  4. Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory

    The "Fascinating Imaginative Realm" of William E. Doll, Jr.

    Edited by Donna Trueit

    Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

    The first collection of the key works of the major curriculum studies scholar William E. Doll, Jr., this volume provides an overview of his scholarship over his fifty-year career and documents the theoretical and practical contribution he has made to the field . The book is organized in five...

    Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge

  5. 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...

    Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Languages of Education

    Protestant Legacies, National Identities, and Global Aspirations

    By Daniel Tröhler

    Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

    In this landmark contribution to the study of the formation of the modern school, Daniel Tröhler applies one of the most recognized methods of historical research to an analysis of the "language" of the academic discipline of education. Arguing the value of looking at languages rather than...

    Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge

  9. 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

  10. What Does Understanding Mathematics Mean for Teachers?

    Relationship as a Metaphor for Knowing

    By Yuichi Handa

    Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

    This book opens up alternative ways of thinking and talking about ways in which a person can "know" a subject (in this case, mathematics), leading to a reconsideration of what it may mean to be a teacher of that subject. In a number of European languages, a distinction is made in ways of knowing...

    Published March 2nd 2011 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. International Handbook of Curriculum Research, 2nd Edition
    Edited by William F. Pinar
    To Be Published August 22nd 2013
  2. Contemplating Curriculum: Genealogies/Times/Places
    Edited by Wanda Hurren, Erika Hasebe-Ludt
    To Be Published September 1st 2013
  3. Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art&art Education
    By jan jagodzinski
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  4. Pun(k) Deconstruction: Experifigural Writings in Art&art Education
    By jan jagodzinski
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  5. What Does Gandhi Mean for Curriculum Theory?: Rethinking Education in New Times
    By Erik Malewski
    To Be Published December 14th 2013
  6. Nonviolence and Education: Cross-Cultural Pathways
    By Hongyu Wang
    To Be Published March 31st 2014

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