3rd Edition

What Is Curriculum Theory?

By William F. Pinar Copyright 2019
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate, and to become educated in the present moment in the places we inhabit. Not only the implementation of objectives to be assessed by standardized tests, curriculum is... Read more

Part I. The Problem That Is the Present 

1. Curriculum Theory 

2. From Autobiography to Allegory 

Part II. The Regressive Moment: Reactivating the Past 

3. The Harlem Renaissance 

4. Mortal Educational Combat 

Part III. The Progressive Moment: The Future in the Present 

5. The Dissolution of Subjectivity 

6. The Future in the Past 

Part IV. The Analytic Moment: Understanding the Present 

7. Anti-Intellectualism and Complicated Conversation 

Part V. The Synthetical Moment 

8. Subjective and Social Survival

Biography

William F. Pinar is Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.