Description

Reflecting the current turn in curriculum work that underscores the relationship between theory and practice, this volume brings together the voices of curriculum theorists working within academic setting and practitioners working in schools and other educational settings. The book traces their collaborative work, challenging the assumption that practitioners should be only consumers of the theory produced by academics. Thus, this collection engages readers in the complicated conversation about the relationship between theory and practice, between theoreticians and practitioners. Although every author is, to some degree, a practitioner as well as a theorist, their collaboration emerges from the particular positions and identification that each assumes in the practice of their craft. From working with homeless youth to deepening one's personal commitment to antiracist pedagogy in schools, each author's experience implodes the false binary of the theory/practice dichotomy, illuminating a different dimension of the challenges therein.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Curriculum Worker as Public Moral Intellectual
Chapter 3 Blurring the Borderlands: Imagining New Relationships
Chapter 4 "Show Me the Money": Collaboration and a New Politics of School Knowledge
Chapter 5 Building Hope: Implementing Unification Education in a South Korean Kindergarten
Chapter 6 Educating the Artist of the Future: Facing the Challenge of Public Arts High Schools
Chapter 7 Transformative Curriculum Leadership: Inspiring Democratic Inquiry Artistry
Chapter 8 Exploring "Theatre as Pedagogy": Silences, Stories, and Sketches of Oppression
Chapter 9 Taking Teachers to the Street
Chapter 10 It Is Not Resolved Yet: When a Louisiana French Immersion Activist Engages Postcolonial, Feminist Theory (or Vice Versa)
Chapter 11 A Contemporary Praxis of Collaboration
Chapter 12 The Problem of the Public

Product details

Published Mar 12 2004
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 160
ISBN 9780742526402
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 227 x 163 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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