Curriculum Windows

What Curriculum Theorists of the 1990s Can Teach Us About Schools and Society Today

Thomas S. Poetter, Kelly Waldrop, Tasneem Amatullah, Thomas S. Poetter, Kelly Waldrop, Tasneem Amatullah, Cleighton Weiland, Jody Googins

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781681237855
  9781681237862
• eBook ISBN:
  9781681237879
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Administration

Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1990s 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 1990s in contemporary terms. The authors explore how key books/authors from the curriculum field of the 1990s illuminate new possibilities forward for us as scholar educators today: How might the theories, practices, and ideas wrapped up in curriculum texts of the 1990s 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 in the curriculum field of the 1990s.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1990s Can Teach Us About Schools and Society Today
• Curriculum Windows
• Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1990s Can Teach Us About Schools and Society Today
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface—Learning to Navigate: The Editing Staff Reflects
• Introduction—Curriculum Windows of the 1990s
• 1. Three Decades of American-Style Sex Ed: Even Though Seasons Change, the View Out the Windows Remains the Same … Time to Open the Door
• 2. Our Children are Not for Sale: How the “Manufactured Crises” Has Commodified Our Public Schools and Students
• 3. The Stories of Ralph Tyler and Elliot Eisner: Contesting Accountability Job Creep Into the Field of Curriculum
• 4. “Reflective Eclecticism”: In the Windows to Curricula, I See Myself
• 5. The Lost Art of Deliberation
• 6. Understanding by Design: From Opacity to Transparency
• 7. Central Park East: The Power of Their Ideas and the Possibilities of School Change
• 8. May I Have Coffee With You? What I Learned About Teaching From My Time Sitting in bell hooks’ Kitchen
• 9. Framing Dropouts or Framing Urban Schools? Are We the Problem or Solution! Framing All My School Experiences
• 10. Rethinking Multicultural Education for Authentic Emancipation
• 11. Reflection on Multicultural Education: From Nationalism to Existential Aesthetics
• 12. Culturally Relevant Curriculum Versus Culturally Irrelevant Curriculum: A Case of Cultures Restricted by Institutionalized Manipulation of Their Ethos(CRIME)
• 13. Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring
• 14. Integrated Curriculum: A Catalyst for Contextualized Learning
• About the Editors/Authors