Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1990s Can Teach Us About Sc

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Explore how key books/authors from the curriculum field of the 1960s illuminate new possibilities forward for us as scholar educators today. How might the theories, practices, and ideas wrapped up in curriculum texts of the 1960s still resonate with us? How might these figurative windows of insight, thought, ideas, fantasy, and fancy make us think differently?

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Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1960s Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists of the 1960s in contemporary terms.The authors explore how key books/authors from the curriculum field of the 1960s illuminate new possibilities forward for us as scholar educators today: How might the theories, practices, and ideas wrapped up in curriculum texts of the 1960s still resonate with us, allow us to see backward in time and forward in time – all at the same time? How might these figurative windows of insight, thought, ideas, fantasy, and fancy make us think differently about curriculum, teaching, learning, students, education, leadership, and schools? Further, how might they help us see more clearly, even perhaps put us on a path to correct the mistakes and missteps of intervening decades and of today? The chapter authors and editor revisit and interpret several of the most important works of the 1960s by Louise Berman, Jerome Bruner, WEB DuBois, Elliot Eisner, John Goodlad, James Herndon, John Holt, Philip Jackson, Herb Kohl, Robert Mager, A.S. Neill, Philip Phenix, Neil Postman. Joseph Schwab, Hilda Taba, and Sidney Walton. The book's Foreword is by renowned curriculum theorist William H. Schubert.

Author Biography

Thomas S. Poetter, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA

Details ISBN1681233711 Pages 233 Publisher Information Age Publishing ISBN-10 1681233711 ISBN-13 9781681233710 Format Hardcover Imprint Information Age Publishing Place of Publication Greenwich Country of Publication United States Edited by Thomas S. Poetter Language English Media Book Short Title CURRICULUM WINDOWS Series Curriculum Windows Illustrations black & white illustrations Subtitle What Curriculum Theorists of the 1990s Can Teach Us About Schools And Society Today AU Release Date 2016-01-11 NZ Release Date 2016-01-11 UK Release Date 2016-01-11 Author Thomas S. Poetter Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-12-30 DEWEY 375.001 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2015-12-30 We've got this

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