Curriculum*-in-the-Making: A Post-constructivist Perspective Contributor(s): Parmar, Priya (Other), Steinberg, Shirley R. (Other), Roth, Wolff-Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433124734 ISBN-13: 9781433124730 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $51.18 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Adult & Continuing Education - Education | Aims & Objectives - Psychology |
Dewey: 375.001 |
LCCN: 2014005849 |
Series: Critical Praxis and Curriculum Guides |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.83 lbs) 232 pages |
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Publisher Description: Curriculum*-in-the-Making theorizes about the living curriculum as an event that is in the making, for the enacted curriculum is something finished, which, only as an object, can be compared to another object. A living curriculum, understood as an event*-in-the-making, leads to a very different appreciation of just what is happening in a classroom. Events* are understood to be in the making so we cannot know the precise nature of what we witness until after completion has been achieved. This book uses lesson fragments to develop a post-constructivist perspective on curriculum that is grounded in a phenomenological approach concerned with understanding the never-ending movement of life. This leads to radically different forms of understanding of curriculum issues such as the subject, ethics, the role of passibility and passivity, the nature of the response, and the learning paradox. |