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 Hardwick, Commissioning Editor, Education Research, Routledge
EMAIL: [email protected]
Teachers’ Ethical Self-Encounters with Counter-Stories in the Classroom: From Implicated to Concerned Subjects
1st Edition
By Teresa Strong-Wilson
January 09, 2023
Offering unique theoretical perspectives, autobiographical insights and narrative accounts from elementary and secondary educators, this monograph illustrates the need for teachers to engage critically with counter-stories as they teach to issues including colonization, war, and genocide. ...
Theorizing Shadow Education and Academic Success in East Asia: Understanding the Meaning, Value, and Use of Shadow Education by East Asian Students
1st Edition
By Young Chun Kim, Jung-Hoon Jung
January 09, 2023
This volume tackles perceived myths surrounding the academic excellence of East Asian students, and moves beyond Western understanding to offer in-depth analysis of the crucial role that shadow education plays in students’ academic success. Featuring a broad range of contributions from countries ...
A Praxis of Presence in Curriculum Theory: Advancing Currere against Cultural Crises in Education
1st Edition
By William F. Pinar
August 31, 2022
Building on his seminal methodological contribution to the field – currere – here William F. Pinar posits a praxis of presence as a unique form of individual engagement against current cultural crises in education. Bringing together a series of updated essays, articles, and new writings to form ...
The Syllabus as Curriculum: A Reconceptualist Approach
1st Edition
By Samuel D. Rocha
April 29, 2022
Can the syllabus constitute the curriculum? In this volume, Rocha explores curriculum theory through the lens of the syllabus. By critiquing curriculum studies and the entire field of education, overrun by the social sciences, Rocha provides an integrated vision of philosophy of education and ...
Tracing Ted Tetsuo Aoki’s Intellectual Formation: Historical, Societal, and Phenomenological Influences
1st Edition
By Patricia Baergen
April 29, 2022
Through careful examination of Ted Aoki’s life and work within its historical, societal and intellectual context, this text advances a new appreciation of the national distinctiveness of Canadian curriculum studies. The book draws unique comparison between Aoki’s writings and Heidegger’s concept ...
Complexifying Curriculum Studies: Reflections on the Generative and Generous Gifts of William E. Doll, Jr.
1st Edition
Edited
By Molly Quinn
March 31, 2021
The essays in this volume bring together leading-edge scholars to illuminate the work of William E. Doll, Jr., as a key curriculum thinker of global impact, and introduce his work and influence to new generations of scholars, teachers, and students of education. Drawing on their individual contexts...
Curriculum Studies as an International Conversation: Educational Traditions and Cosmopolitanism in Latin America
1st Edition
By Daniel F. Johnson-Mardones
March 31, 2021
Examining Curriculum Studies from an international perspective, this book focuses on the relations between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American educational traditions. Informed by William F. Pinar’s conceptualization of curriculum as currere, Johnson-Mardones reconsiders curriculum as an ...
Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education: A Socratic Curriculum Grounded in Finite Human Transcendence
1st Edition
By James M. Magrini
September 30, 2020
Bridging the gap between interpretations of "Third Way" Platonic scholarship and "phenomenological-ontological" scholarship, this book argues for a unique ontological-hermeneutic interpretation of Plato and Plato’s Socrates. Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education offers a ...
What Is Curriculum Theory?
3rd Edition
By William F. Pinar
May 21, 2019
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....
Arts Education and Curriculum Studies: The Contributions of Rita L. Irwin
1st Edition
Edited
By Mindy R. Carter, Valerie Triggs
May 07, 2019
Highlighting Rita L. Irwin’s significant work in the fields of curriculum studies and arts education, this collection honors her well-known contribution of a/r/tography to curriculum studies in the form of arts based educational research and, beyond this, her contributions towards understanding the...
Christian Privilege in U.S. Education: Legacies and Current Issues
1st Edition
By Kevin J. Burke, Avner Segall
May 07, 2019
Using critical curriculum theory as its lens, this book explores the relationship between religion—specifically, Christianity and the Judeo-Christian ethos underlying it—and secular public education in the United States. Despite various 20th-century court decisions separating religion and education...
Engaging Curriculum: Bridging the Curriculum Theory and English Education Divide
1st Edition
By Bill Green
May 07, 2019
Explicitly linking curriculum inquiry to English education via recurring themes of representation, democracy and knowledge, this book is a call for both researchers and practitioners to engage with curriculum, explicitly and deliberatively, as both a concept and a question. The approach is broadly ...