Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
About the Book Series
In this age of multimedia information overload, scholars and students may not be able to keep up with the proliferation of different topical, trendy book series in the field of curriculum theory. It will be a relief to know that one publisher offers a balanced, solid, forward-looking series devoted to significant and enduring scholarship, as opposed to a narrow range of topics or a single approach or point of view. This series is conceived as the series busy scholars and students can trust and depend on to deliver important scholarship in the various "discourses" that comprise the increasingly complex field of curriculum theory.
The range of the series is both broad (all of curriculum theory) and limited (only important, lasting scholarship) – including but not confined to historical, philosophical, critical, multicultural, feminist, comparative, international, aesthetic, and spiritual topics and approaches. Books in this series are intended for scholars and for students at the doctoral and, in some cases, master's levels.
Persons interested in submitting book proposals or in serving as reviewers for this series are invited to contact:
Professor William F. Pinar, Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia, Canada
Faculty of Education
Department of Curriculum Studies
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4
Canada
EMAIL: [email protected]
Kirsty Murray, Commissioning Editor, Education Research, Routledge
EMAIL: [email protected]
A Decolonial Curriculum: Knowledge, Knowing, and Coming-to-Know
1st Edition
By David Scott, Sandra Leaton Gray, Rita Chawla-Duggan
June 05, 2026
A Decolonial Curriculum advances the claim that a decolonial and transcolonial curriculum must be grounded in a substantive account of what human beings do, have done, and might yet do. It proposes twelve fundamental domains of human life - knowing, communicating, genealogising, positioning, ...
Toward a Poor Curriculum: 50th Anniversary Edition
4th Edition
By William F. Pinar, Madeleine R. Grumet
February 12, 2026
Fifty years since the publication of Toward a Poor Curriculum, William F. Pinar and Madeleine R. Grumet reflect on the ongoing need for a poor curriculum—one stripped of distractions such as technology to allow for the reflection and self-questioning at the heart of the book’s central methodology ...
Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in African and Euro-Asian Contexts: Towards More Balanced Curricular Representations and Classroom Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Ehaab Abdou, Theodore Zervas
December 26, 2025
This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisdom traditions. With a focus on representations and ...
Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in the Americas: Towards More Balanced and Inclusive Curricular Representations and Classroom Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Ehaab Abdou, Theodore Zervas
December 26, 2025
This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisdom traditions. With a focus on representations and ...
Curriculum Fragments: A Currere Journey through Life Processes
1st Edition
By Thomas S. Poetter
November 27, 2025
This book builds upon Louise Berman’s late 20th-century framing of life processes to inform school curriculum, by proposing a new curriculum project that extends and reframes Berman in and beyond schooling. Using the well-established curriculum theorizing method, currere, the author focuses on ...
A Curriculum of Courage, Conviction, Resolve: The Subjective Necessity of Nonviolence
1st Edition
By William F. Pinar
November 11, 2025
The world is periodically consumed by violence, in recent years by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ October 7th terrorism in Israel, and by the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by Israelis in response. In response to this world-historical situation, this book attempts a curriculum studies ...
Colonising and Decolonising: Concepts, Learnings, and Praxes
1st Edition
By David Scott, Sandra Leaton Gray, Rita Chawla-Duggan
November 11, 2025
Colonising and Decolonising argues for a decolonised and ethicised curriculum. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach, it draws upon the fields of history, sociology, education, anthropology, philosophy, indigenous studies, and more, to allow a nuanced and multifaceted exploration of the subject...
Racism in the Enacted Curriculum: Agentic Ideas and the Spaces Between
1st Edition
By Alexander Pratt
November 10, 2025
Racism in the Enacted Curriculum chronicles the work of experienced and skilled antiracist educators to explore why even the best-intentioned curricula for resisting racism often fall short. Featuring case studies from different educational contexts across the United States, as well as the ...
Currere from Apartheid to Inclusion: Building Culturally Responsive Pedagogies in Post-Apartheid South Africa
1st Edition
By Shani Steyn
October 26, 2025
This volume demonstrates the instrumental use of Currere as a methodology to bring about Deracialisation through transformational learning by a white educator in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Offering an honest and vulnerable recognition of privilege and exclusivity, it disrupts deep-seated racial ...
Education at the Edge of Experience: Navigating the Unassimilable
1st Edition
By Marla Morris
October 26, 2025
Presenting a unique exploration of education at “the edge of experience,” this book investigates how unassimilable concepts can reconceptualize education in order to grapple with what is beyond understanding. Working at the intersection of curriculum theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, Morris ...
Myth, Manhood, and Curriculum: Towards Truth, Self-Cultivation, and Reparation
1st Edition
By James P. Burns
August 11, 2025
This book explores the historicized complexities of myths of manhood through a curriculum study that examines the historical emergence of the current propagandization of attacks on manhood in US public life. Narratives about manhood and masculinity are often predicated on concepts of violence, such...
Exile as an Educative Engagement: The Dizziness of Recognition
1st Edition
By Parmis Aslanimehr
June 29, 2025
This book explores the concept of exile, experienced not as a physical displacement but as a subjective experience of disconnection from the Other. It further clarifies the notion of exilic subjectivity, whereby a hidden facet of the self—ineffable both to the Other and to the Self—causes a ...