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]
Curriculum and the Problem of Violence: Biopolitics, Truth, History and Fascism
1st Edition
By James P. Burns
May 06, 2025
This book is a genealogical inquiry into the present problem of violence, in the United States and internationally, through the lens of curriculum theory. It explores a constellation of problems including war, authoritarianism, post-truth, social disparities, and increasingly onerous surveillance ...
Practicing Pragmatism through Progressive Pedagogies: A Philosophical Lens for Grounding Classroom Teaching and Research
1st Edition
By Susan Jean Mayer
May 06, 2025
This book contributes to the contemporary revival of pragmatism as a practical and ultimately, as Mayer argues, necessary philosophical stance within democratic schools. Given that pragmatism addresses the question of how people can move forward in the absence of transcendent Truth, the author ...
The Ethics of Becoming a Good Teacher: In Conversation with Aristotle and Confucius
1st Edition
By Ying Ma
April 14, 2025
This book explores Aristotelian and Confucian wisdom traditions to understand education and what counts as a good teacher in an embodied dialogic approach. The book creates a dialogue between ancient ideas and the author’s lived experiences as a teacher in cross-cultural landscapes today to ...
Interrogating Nation-Statehood and the Citizen in Curriculum Development: Comparative Historical Cases
1st Edition
By Nicole Gotling
December 26, 2024
This book dives into the histories of nation-state-building and curriculum formation to explore the ways that they intertwine, form and inform each other. This book follows the understanding that nation-states have – and still do – develop their educational institutions, curricula, and teaching ...
Schooling, Human Capital and Civilization: A Brief History from Antiquity to the Digital Era
1st Edition
By Bruce Moghtader
December 19, 2024
This book explores the formation of human capital in education, interrogating its social and ethical implications, and examining its role in generating policies and practices that govern curriculum studies as an academic field. Using an inquiry approach and offering an intellectual history of ...
South Korean Education and Learning Excellence as a Hallyu: Ethnographic Understandings of a Nation’s Academic Success
1st Edition
By Young Chun Kim, Jae-seong Jo, Jung-Hoon Jung
December 19, 2024
This book constitutes a sociological, anthropological, and curricular inquiry into the factors surrounding high academic achievement rates of students in South Korea. Taking root in similar studies conducted around the exemplary nature of the Finnish education model, it explores the phenomenon of...
Currere and Psychoanalytic Guided Regression: Revisiting the Kent State Shootings
1st Edition
By Karl Martin
November 29, 2024
This book revisits the 1970 Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, using a new approach of currere and psychoanalytic guided regression. Drawing on a variety of interviews with those who were present at the events or who have close connections to the ...
Curriculum as Confession: The Promise of Teaching for Selfhood and Truth
1st Edition
By Christopher M. Cruz
October 21, 2024
This book offers a philosophical inquiry into the idea of curriculum as confession and considers how it can help us answer questions of justice, selfhood, and truth. It connects the field of curriculum studies and continental philosophy in order to arrive at new ways of thinking through the concept...
Currere and Legacy in the Context of Family Business: Towards a New Theory of Intergenerational Learning
1st Edition
By Samuel Chen
October 09, 2024
This book presents a new conceptualization of the idea of legacy in a family business setting as an educational experience of teaching and learning between generations. Using the lived experience of the author, it combines autoethnography with a discussion on the influence of Chinese culture on ...
Curriculum Histories in Place, in Person, in Practice: The Louisiana State University Curriculum Theory Project
1st Edition
Edited
By Petra Hendry, Molly Quinn, Roland Mitchell, Jacqueline Bach
October 09, 2024
This book situates the Curriculum Theory Project at Louisiana State University within a larger historical framework of curriculum work, examining the practices which have sustained this type of curricular vitality over the lifetime of the field’s existence. Divided into seven parts, the authors ...
In Search of Responsibility as Education: Traversing Banal and Radical Terrains
1st Edition
By Hannah Spector
October 09, 2024
Not to be conflated with systems of accountability, this book examines responsibility as a subject of educational inquiry. The author argues that responsibility in its most radical sense is not connected to a higher authority. Rather, responsibility summons the actor to do the right thing when no ...
Love in the Post-Reconceptualist Era of Curriculum Work: Deliberations on the Meanings of Care
1st Edition
By Allan Michel Jales Coutinho
October 09, 2024
By employing the autobiographical method of currere and bifocalization, this book sheds light on the significance of love and the ethics of caregiving as means to transform curriculum studies into a post-reconceptualist and collective endeavor. Advancing an understanding of curriculum as a "...