Understand the course: Introduction to the Study of Historical and Contemporary Course Discourse

Author: William F. Pinar
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Publication Date: 2003-02-01
Features: Understanding Curriculum (Volume 1 and 2) is the most important and most comprehensive textbook on curriculum theory in the United States after Ralph Tyler's Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction. This book is the most important and most comprehensive textbook on curriculum theory in the United States after Ralph Tyler's Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction. It is a grand historical panorama—discussing the nearly 170-year development of American curriculum theory (1828–1994); it is a monumental work full of contemporary relevance—focusing on the development of the American curriculum field after "conceptual reconstruction," providing a thorough analysis of "political curriculum theory," "racial curriculum theory," "gender curriculum theory," "phenomenological curriculum theory," "postmodern curriculum theory," "autobiographical curriculum theory," "aesthetic curriculum theory," "theological curriculum theory," "institutional curriculum theory," and "international curriculum theory." The book also conducts innovative and cutting-edge research on many practical issues in curriculum development, such as "curriculum policy," "curriculum planning, design, and organization," "curriculum implementation," "curriculum evaluation," "curriculum and teachers," and "curriculum and students." In the United States, this book is hailed as the "Bible of curriculum theory," and it truly deserves the title.