1st Edition
Subjectivity, Curriculum, and Society Between and Beyond the German Didaktik and Anglo-American Curriculum Studies
By Tero Autio
Copyright 2006
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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 this divide. Using careful historical and theoretical exposition to work through the tension between... Read more
Contents: Preface. Introduction. "Truth As Utility": Reconsidering the Rise of Scientific Method as a Pragmatic Precursor for Modernist Curriculum Thinking. From Theology and Metaphysics to the Culture of Method: The Cartesian Revolution of Epistemology and Curriculum. The Puritan-Protestant Disenchantment of Spirituality: The Rationalization of Religion, Inquiring Mind, and Education. Curricular Predicaments of John Locke's Liberalism: Pleasure and Reason; Psychology and Politics. Curriculum and the Politics of Psychology: "Conformity of Wills and Predictability of Behavior." Epilogue: Toward a Curriculum Discourse Sui Generis.
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Tero Autio
