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]
By Karl Martin
January 01, 2025
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 ...
By Nicole Gotling
November 15, 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. The book follows the understanding that nation-states have – and still do – develop their educational institutions, curricula, and teaching ...
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...
By Silvia Morelli
October 09, 2024
Drawing on a range of postcritical theories including postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of curriculum in Latin America. The book underscores the relationship between curriculum, didactics, and Bildung in the ...
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By Teresa Strong-Wilson, Ricardo L. Castro, Warren Crichlow, Amarou Yoder
August 26, 2024
This book engages with the writings of W.G. Sebald, mediated by perspectives drawn from curriculum and architecture, to explore the theme of unsettling complacency and confront difficult knowledge around trauma, discrimination and destruction. Moving beyond overly instrumentalist and reductive ...
Edited
By Ehaab Abdou, Theodore Zervas
August 01, 2024
This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisdom traditions. With a focus on representations and ...
Edited
By Ehaab Abdou, Theodore Zervas
August 01, 2024
This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisdom traditions. With a focus on representations and ...
By Thomas S. Poetter
July 12, 2024
This book builds upon Louise Berman’s late 20th-century framing of life processes to inform school curriculum, by proposing a new curriculum project that extends and reframes Berman in and beyond schooling. Using the well-established curriculum theorizing method, currere, the author focuses on ...
By Shani Steyn
June 14, 2024
This volume demonstrates the instrumental use of Currere as a methodology to bring about Deracialisation through transformational learning by a white educator in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Offering an honest and vulnerable recognition of privilege and exclusivity, it disrupts deep-seated racial ...
By Marla Morris
June 03, 2024
Presenting a unique exploration of education at “the edge of experience,” this book investigates how unassimilable concepts can reconceptualize education in order to grapple with what is beyond understanding. Working at the intersection of curriculum theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, Morris ...
By Khara Schonfeld-Karan
May 27, 2024
This volume explores unschooling as a growing phenomenon within the broader field of home education and considers the unique position of parents who engage in this self-directed form of education with their children. Drawing on an in-depth hermeneutic phenomenological study, the volume ...
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By Daniel Tröhler, Bernadette Hörmann, Sverre Tveit, Inga Bostad
May 27, 2024
Tracing historical and cultural factors which gave rise to the Nordic Education Model, this volume explores why Northern European education policy has become an international benchmark for schooling. The text explains the historical connection between a Nordic ideal of democracy and schooling, and ...