Reconceptualizing curriculum development : inspiring and informing action

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Reconceptualizing curriculum development : inspiring and informing action

James G. Henderson and colleagues

(Studies in curriculum theory / William F. Pinar, series editor)

Routledge, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227) and index

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Description

Reconceptualizing Curriculum Development provides accessible, clear guidance on curriculum problem solving and educational leadership through the practice of a synoptic curriculum study. This practice integrates three influential interpretations of curriculum-curriculum as deliberative artistry, curriculum as complicated conversation, and curriculum as currere-with John Dewey's lifetime work on reflective inquiry. At its heart, the book advances a way of studying as a way of living with reference to the question: How might I live as a democratic educator? The study guidance is organized as an open-ended scaffolding of three embedded reflective inquiries informed by four deliberative conversations. Study recommendations are provided by a carefully selected team. The field-tested study-based approach is illustrated through a multi-layered, multi-voiced narrative collage of four experienced teachers' personal journeys of understanding in a collegial study context. Applying William Pinar's argument that a "conceptual montage" enabling teachers to lead complicated conversations should be the focus for curriculum development in the field's current 'post-reconceptualist' moment, the book moves forward the educational aim of facilitating a holistic subject/self/social understanding through the practice of a balanced hermeneutics of suspicion and trust. It closes with a discussion of cross-cultural collaboration and advocacy, reflecting the interest of curriculum scholars in a wide range of countries in this study-based, lead-learning approach to curriculum development.

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword (William F. Pinar) Preface (James G. Henderson) Chapter 1-A New Curriculum Development: Inspiration and Rationale (James G. Henderson) Part I: Lead-Learning Invitations (James G. Henderson) Chapter 2-Teaching for Holistic Understanding: Inspirational Events in Study and Practice (Daniel J. Castner) Chapter 3-Embodying Holistic Understanding: Democratic Being in Trying Times (Jennifer L. Schneider) Chapter 4-Sowing Holistic Understanding: Building a Disciplinary Community (Christine Fishman) Chapter 5-Deliberative Conversation: Cross-Paradigm Critique and Negotiation (Wendy Samford) Chapter 6-Deliberative Conversation: Possibilities of Equity in Everyday Schooling (Boni Wozolek) Chapter 7-Deliberative Conversation: Consciousness-Raising for Democratic Interdependence (Beth A. Bilek-Golias) Chapter 8-Deliberative Conversation: Inspiriting Teaching through Mythopoetic Inspiration (Petra Pienkosky Moran) Part II: Collegial Stories and Commentary (James G. Henderson) Chapter 9-Lead-Learning Stories: A Narrative Montage (Jen Griest, Jennifer L. Schneider, Susan School, & Konni Stagliano) Chapter 10-Generative Leadership: Protecting the Good Work (Catherine E. Hackney) Chapter 11-Build It and They Will Come: A Cross-Cultural Conversation on Lead-Learning Possibilities and Challenges (Tero Autio, Aboudou Hamidou Berthe, Donna Adair Breault, Rosemary Gornik, Thomas E. Kelly, Kauko Komulainen, & Wen-Ling Lou) About the Book's Collaborative Team References Index

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  • NCID
    BB18167459
  • ISBN
    • 9780415704274
    • 9781138809444
  • LCCN
    2014017040
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxvi, 237 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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