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Emerging Perspectives from Social Realism on Knowledge and Education: Curricula, Pedagogy, Identity, and Equity book cover

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Emerging Perspectives from Social Realism on Knowledge and Education Curricula, Pedagogy, Identity, and Equity

Edited By Graham McPhail, Richard Pountney, Leesa Wheelahan Copyright 2025
254 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book brings the key ideas and concepts of social realism to bear on current debates in the fields of knowledge and curriculum. The key concern of this collection is to highlight matters related to knowledge and the influence these dimensions have on the formation of curricula, pedagogy, identity, and equity in educational contexts. Presenting new perspectives on the place of various types... Read more

PART 1: Theoretical Matters

1. Introduction: Knowledge and the curriculum: new perspectives from social realism

Graham McPhail, Richard Pountney, and Leesa Wheelahan

2. Bernstein’s knowledge structures and the curriculum

Johan Muller

3. The curriculum as relation between knowledge of reality and the individual’s development: contributions from Antonio Gramsci and Lev Vygotsky

Newton Duarte and Elaine Cristina Melo Duarte

PART 2: Curriculum Contestations

4. School music education beyond human development? Contributions from a social realist perspective

Mauricio Braz de Carvalho and Cláudia Valentina A. Galian

5. Decolonisation and the curriculum: Applying a social realist lens

Barbara Ormond

6. Knowledge travels: the recontextualisation of socio-cultural knowledge for the academy and the school.

Graham McPhail

7. Privatising Music Knowledge: Identifying the restrictions that specialise music education

Mandy Carver

PART 3: Knowledge and Teacher Education

8. Logic in the Curriculum Design Coherence Model: How the Model creates coherence

Elizabeth Rata

9. Practice knowledge and teacher mentoring: a realist analysis of professional development and learning

Richard Pountney and Michael Coldwell

10. Why ‘liberating’ Education Studies from foundation disciplines cannot make it more coherent

Yael Shalem and Stephanie Allais

11. Exploring the challenges of recontextualisation in the development of teachers’ professional practice knowledge.

Di Swift

PART 4: Crossing Boundaries

12. Interdisciplinary curriculum and equity

Leesa Wheelahan and Gavin Moodie

13. Crossing boundaries: Exploring the theory, practice and possibility of a ‘Future 3’ curriculum

Richard Pountney and Graham McPhail

Biography

Graham McPhail is an associate professor in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education and Social Work, the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Richard Pountney is a senior lecturer in the Sheffield Institute for Education, Sheffield Hallam University, the United Kingdom.

Leesa Wheelahan is Professor Emerita, William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership, in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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