What Is Curriculum Theory?

Name: What Is Curriculum Theory?
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ISBN: 9780415804110

ISBN-10: 0415804116

ISBN-13: 9780415804110

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: William F. Pinar

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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 effort #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; inspired by theory in the humanities, arts and interpretive social sciences #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; to understand the curriculum, defined here as "complicated conversation." Rather than the formulation of objectives to be evaluated by (especially standardized) tests, curriculum is communication informed by academic knowledge, and it is characterized by educational experience. Pinar…

Book details

List price: $57.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/3/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



The Problem That Is the Present



School Deform



The Race to Nowhere



The Less You Know



"Untimely" Concepts



Too Little Intellect in Matters of Soul



The School as a Business



The Figure of the Schoolteacher



From Autobiography to Allegory



To Run the Course: Currere



Allegories-of-the-Present



Allegory as Montage



Why Weimar?



The Regressive Moment: The Past in the Present



The Defeat of Democracy



The Terrible Question



States of Emergency



The "Highly Fissured" Republic



The Regimented Mass



Art as Allegory



Economic Crisis



The Great Age of Educational Reform



Correctional Education



Mortal Educational Combat



Gracious Submission



The Racial Politics of Curriculum Reform



Students and the Civil Rights Movement



Freedom Schools



The Gender Politics of Curriculum Reform



The Progressive Moment: The Future in the Present



The Dissolution of Subjectivity in Cyberculture



Dream, Thought, Fantasy



"Let Them Eat Data"



The Death of the Subject?



Avatars



Breaking News



Intimacy and Abjection



The Future in the Past



The Technology of Cultural Crisis



The Degradation of the Present



A Philosophy of Technology



Technology and Soul



The Analytic Moment: Understanding the Present



Anti-Intellectualism and Complicated Conversation



Anti-Intellectualism



An Unrehearsed Intellectual Adventure



Curriculum as Complicated Conversation Is Not (Only) Classroom Discourse



Is it Too Late?



The Synthetical Moment: Reactivating the Past, Understanding the Present, Finding the Future



Subjective and Social Reconstruction



A Struggle within Each Person



Reactivating the Past



Understanding the Present



Finding the Future


References


Index