Description
Product ID: | 9780820426013 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Counterpoints |
Title: | Understanding Curriculum |
Subtitle: | An Introduction to the Study of Historical and Contemporary Curriculum Discourses |
Authors: | Author: Patrick Slattery, William M. Reynolds, William F. Pinar, Peter M. Taubman |
Page Count: | 1143 |
Subjects: | Curriculum planning and development, Curriculum planning & development |
Description: | Perhaps not since Ralph Tyler’s (1949) Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction has a book communicated the field as completely as Understanding Curriculum. From historical discourses to breaking developments in feminist, poststructuralist, and racial theory, including chapters on political theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, theology, international developments, and a lengthy chapter on institutional concerns, the American curriculum field is here. It will be an indispensable textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses alike. Counterpoints publishes the most compelling and imaginative books being written in education today. Grounded on the theoretical advances in criticalism, feminism and postmodernism in the last two decades of the twentieth century, Counterpoints engages the meaning of these innovations in various forms of educational expression. Committed to the proposition that theoretical literature should be accessible to a variety of audiences, the series insists that its authors avoid esoteric and jargonistic languages that transform educational scholarship into an elite discourse for the initiated. |
Imprint Name: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
Publisher Name: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2006-04-04 |