Routledge Rethinking Schooling: Twenty-Five Years of the Journal of Curriculum Studies (Education Heritage)

Taking a collection of seminal articles from the Journal of Curriculum Studies, this book offers readers a vantage point for thinking about the worlds of schools and curricula, focusing in particular on the concept of seeing schools, curricula and teaching in new ways. Each of the chapters sheds fresh light on the ways of thinking the aforementioned. Themes include: classrooms and teaching pedagogy science and history education school and curriculum development students’ lives in schools. Written by an international group of distinguished scholars from Britain, North America, Sweden and Germany, the chapters draw on the perspectives offered by curriculum and pedagogical theory, history, ethnography, sociology, psychology and organisational studies and experiences in curriculum-making. Together they invite many questions about why teaching and curricula must be as they are. Rethinking Schooling provides new futures for education and alternative ways of seeing them. Review 'Rethinking Schooling' is coherently structured to walk the student through the seventeenth to the twenty first century studying all things curricula along the way.' 'This book is an aperitif to the historical research of 25 years the Journal of Curriculum Studies from whence the chapters of this book originated. Rethinking Schooling is indeed an important resource for students of Curriculum Studies moreover it is a Directional text for renewed thinking on the future of schooling.' - Escalate.ac.uk About the Author Ian Westbury is Professor of curriculum & instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Geoff Milburn is Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, The University of Western Ontario, Canada.