Curriculum Studies

Progressive Rhetoric: Imagining Schools for a Modern Age in Interwar Ontario considers the ways that progressivist ideas and rhetoric shaped early curriculum and structural changes to Ontario’s public schools. Through a series of case studies, conceptual analyses, and personal reflections from the f..

Conceptualizing scholars as poets and the potential of the poetic in education, this volume explores theoretical and methodological innovations taking place within curriculum studies research at the intersection of the arts, social theory, and curriculum studies...

This book aims to help all those involved with children and their learning through poem-writing. The book begins with an introduction outling the importance of poetry. It discusses poetry in terms of children's learning and the imagination...

This text 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 conversa..

Addressing studying as a distinct educational concept and phenomenon in its own right, this volume considers study and studying from a range of perspectives, countering dominant educational discourses, which place heavy emphasis on learning and instruction. It highlights the significance of study no..

Focuses on the importance of transforming religious education and using its potential to address the worldviews of children...

Regenerating the Curriculum traces the social and political climate which led to a rejection of piecemeal change, and examines the implications of school-based development of the whole curriculum for national projects, for in-service training, and for the management of change processes in the school..

A chance to explore the contributions made to the fields of Arts Education, Curriculum Studies and Qualitative Research by Professor Eisner, who has spent forty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues...

This book considers the impact of educational policies on those who have to translate political priorities into the day-to-day work of schools and classrooms...

This book about the relationship between religion and teaching/learning in a democratic society focuses specifically on classroom issues related to religious understandings and experiences of teachers and students, and their implications for developing democratic citizens...

This book about the relationship between religion and teaching/learning in a democratic society focuses specifically on classroom issues related to religious understandings and experiences of teachers and students, and their implications for developing democratic citizens...

Taking a collection of seminal articles from the Journal of Curriculum Studies, this book sheds fresh light on the ways of thinking about teaching, curricula and schools...