Routledge The Reason of Schooling - Curriculum Studies & Teacher Education

This critical examination of schooling challenges conventional assumptions about education, society, and curriculum by positioning the 'reason' of schooling as fundamentally historical and political. Leading international and interdisciplinary scholars argue that the principles governing school subjects, curriculum design, and teaching reforms are historical practices that shape what is thought, acted on, and discussed in educational contexts. The book explores the dynamics of social exclusion within education systems, the normalising mechanisms embedded in curriculum, and the limits of contemporary power theories in understanding schooling. Published by Routledge as part of the Studies in Curriculum Theory Series, this work provides essential theoretical frameworks for educators, curriculum designers, and education researchers seeking to understand how schooling practices are constructed and contested.