Title: Reconceptualizing curriculum development : inspiring and informing action /
Authors: Henderson, James, 1945-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Curriculum planning; EDUCATION / Curricula.; EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives.; EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects.; Curriculum planning
Abstract: "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"--
Contents: A new curriculum development : inspiration and rationale / James G. Henderson -- Teaching for holistic understanding : inspirational events in study and practice / Daniel J. Castner -- Embodying holistic understanding : democratic being in trying times / Jennifer L. Schneider -- Sowing holistic understanding : building a disciplinary community / Christine Fishman -- Deliberative conversation : cross-paradigm critique and negotiation / Wendy Samford -- Deliberative conversation : possibilities of equity in everyday schooling / Boni Wozolek -- Deliberative conversation : consciousness-raising for democratic interdependence / Beth A. Bilek-Golias -- Deliberative conversation : inspiring teaching through mythopoetic inspiration / Petra Pienkosky Moran -- Lead-learning stories : a narrative montage / Jen Griest ... [et al.] -- Generative leadership : protecting the good work / Catherine E. Hackney -- Build it and they will come : a cross-cultural conversation on lead-learning possibilities and challenges / Tero Autio ... [et al.].