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."
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