Annotation: Includes sixteen articles on a variety of innovative ways to create educational encounters, based on presentations at the 2017 Canadian Provoking Curriculum Conference; the final chapter provides a brief record of the meetings, themes, and people involved in Canadian Curriculum Studies since the 1970s with particular attention to the seven biennial Provoking Curriculum Conferences held between 2003 and 2017.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry - General
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: American/International Curriculum Organizations, Curriculum as Experience

Annotation: Analyzes the effects on U. S. public education of the under-funding of schools; of the rise of privatization of schooling; of housing policies, and of a focus on testing of educational outcomes; points to possible remedies.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making; Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Currriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum; Curriculum and Politics

Annotation: Illuminates and reflects on the key ideas of Pinar and Grumet's 1976 book, Toward a Poor Curriculum and its later editions; these pages appear as a part of a larger treatment by the author, subtitled, "Close Encounters of a Pedagogical Kind.'"

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Classics in Curriculum Literature, Curriculum as Experience

Annotation: Offers a critique of the current Australian Curriculum and of the articles written about it earlier in this book; addresses questions about knowledge, pedagogy, and democracy that are prompted by these earlier articles; gives an overall assessment of where work with the Australian Curriculum now stands.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making; Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum Frameworks, Curriculum and Politics, Core Mandates, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum, School Subjects, Elementary School Curriculum

Annotation: Proposes a human rights curriculum for schools that highlights powerful knowledge; analyzes the role of knowledge in any curriculum; calls for curriculum scholars to attend to 'knowledge blindness' in curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Citizenship Education, Content Selection and Orgnaization, Knowledge Utilization

Annotation: Reviews the literature on educational objectives and highlights the value of experience-based objectives; draws on Eisner's notion of expressive objectives; explains and gives examples of experience-based objectives.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Objectives, Curriculum as Experience

Annotation: Analyzes curriculum change within three domains (policy, programs, philosophies) using a "discursive institutionalism" framework (which is explained); this process is illustrated using the Swedish Reform of 2011 as an example.

Broad Topical Focus: Currriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Concpetual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Implementation

Annotation: Reports a study of how teachers in Scotland and Wales shaped their curriculum making through processes of reflexivity upon their own perspectives and upon contextual factors, such as structural and cultural; various modes of reflexivity are shown to be at work in these teachers; it is suggest that the research framework used in this study can be a useful way of studying teachers' involvement in curriculum making.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development-Organization-Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum Development Strategies

Annotation: Reviews articles in JCS's first 50 years that reflect the changing history of curriculum research during this period; treats topics such as content vs goals, the advent of ethnographic methods, the tension over whether to focus on schools or their broader social contexts; and whether a political perspective should be incorporated into curriculum research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Reseach and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

Annotation: Elucidates Bowers' concepts of the commons and of enclosure; highlights Bowers' contributions to educational theory for his ecological, political, and pedagogical insights.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Visions and Philosophies, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Criticism of Schooling, Idelogy and School Knowledge, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Annotation: Addresses the issue stated in the title of this article by reviewing three models of liberal education (Newman, Hirst, Schwab) and the model of Bildung-centered Didaktik; calls for a theory of content based on a combined model.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Liberal Education/General Education, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Aims and Objectives

Annotation: Gives Westbury's perspectives on the history of 1) the crisis in the curriculum field; 2) Schwab's contributions on curriculum as a field of deliberative practice;3) Didaktik; 4) liberal education vs general education; and 5) assessment within the curriculum -- includes among many insights not previously shared.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum Professors

Annotation: Offers a model of curriculum that, in contrast to inducting students into realms of knowledge, considers curriculum as continuous discovery, experiencing, thinking through embodying, and plugging into exchanges of communications among people, actions, and entities; draws on a reading of Deleuze and Guattari (1987).

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Curriculum as Experience

Annotation: Provides a critical analysis of the current state of curriculum theorizing including the reconceptualist movement, its 21st century aftermath, and Schwabs' "The Practical"; proposes resolving this state of affairs by focusing on the work of the schools and on an eclectic approach in curriculum development.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Curriculum Professors

Annotation: Reviews the history of U. S. curriculum to date; subsequent chapters discuss curriculum development and evaluation.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development-Organization-Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum Development Strategies

Annotation: Offers a framework for analyzing transnational curricula at several levels (societal, programmatic, policy enactment, and curricular enactment) based on curriculum theory and discursive institutionalism (illustrated in the context of Swedish Lgr 11).

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Concpetual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum

Annotation: Sums up the author's concerns about how critical analysis has waxed and waned in the curriculum field and about the way the field has lost its way and its voice.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum and Politics, Curriculum Profesors, Criticism of Schooling

Annotation: Gives a critique of the Tyler Rationale in its historic context and analyzes the instrumental assumptions embedded in it; shows how the instructional design that has risen to implement his model is based on the same assumptions.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Development-Organization-Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry, Philosphical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Critical Inquiry, Theortical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies, Classics of Curriculum Literature, Curriculum History, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Annotation: Challenges the idea expressed in the 1960s and 1970s that the curriculum field was ahistorical; examines ten curriculum publications from 1918 to 1964 that give serious attention to the history of curriculum and curriculum making.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Literature of Curriculum

Annotation: Identifies eight major trends in curriculum building as of 1936 in the U. S.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development-Organization-Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum Development Strategies

Annotation: Defines and describes the uses of theories in education; explains why a theory of curriculum is necessary; asserts that a theory of curriculum is a theory of process (design/making); offers a theory of curriculum based on the author's 1995 book.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Decision-Making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Concpetual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies, Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Annotation: Reviews the status of research related to curriculum building and recent lines of research whose findings bear on a revision; chapters follow on research in several subject areas of the curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Reseach and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies, Curriculum History, Knowledge Generation

Annotation: Draws on structural-functional analysis from the social sciences to explicate an approach to creating scientific theory in the the field of curriculum; provides a thorough and lucid treatment of all topics addressed; serves as an historical summary of the status (as of 1964) of this type of analysis and its use as a model for curriculum; deals with concepts of curriculum phenomena, curriculum system, its elements, its structure, its functions, and its processes.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Concpetual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Annotation: Provides a summary of the curricula offered in U. S. schools from 1635-present; gives analyses by various curriculum authorities of the various movements during this history.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Development-Organization-Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History

Annotation: Defines neoliberalism and gives examples in U.S. settings; calls for critique and action against this ideology in both education and the public sphere.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Field Other Than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Annotation: Offers general principles underlying the secondary school curriculum; gives history of the evolution of its program of studies; addresses the problem of selection of subjects.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Secondary School Curriculum

Annotation: Reports a study of educators' use of research in their grant proposals, the factors influencing their use of this research, and the patterns of this use.

Broad Topical Focus: Relation of Curriclum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Utilization

Annotation: Traces several forms of authoritarianism from 1916 to 1983 and their impact on school curriculum in the United States.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Change, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Democratic Edcuation, Citizenship Education, Social Studies

Annotation: Identifies curriculum ideas from Ward,1883, that Dewey advanced in 1916; general education, career education, and enrichment were the three curriculums Dewey set forth for an education within a democratic society.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Scondary School Curriculum, Democratic Education, Higher Education Curriculum

Annotation: Summarizes recent meta-analyses of research in social and emotional learning; notes key findings; gives implications for research, practice, and policy.

Broad Topical Focus: Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Hidden Curriculum, Psychology and Curriculum, Self-Knowledge

Annotation: Traces the purposes, objectives, alliances, ideologies, and political strategies of ALEC; analyzes model legislative bills promoted by ALEC and discusses the strategies used by ALEC; shows how the public policy process has been privatized by actions of ALEC: suggests implications for policy-making and research in education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Curriculum History, Democratic Education, Discourse Analysis, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum, Local Control of Schooling, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Annotation: Reviews several traditions of content selection in curriculum construction and gives examples from science, citizenship, and liberal studies; analyzes the deliberative approach to this task and gives illustrations from Sweden.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Deliberation

Annotation: Provides an extensive exploration of the historical literature on theorizing educational leadership, curriculum, and Didaktik; makes a plea for bridging the work of all three types of theorizing; offers a non-affirmative theory of education as a framework for accomplishing this effort of bridging all three

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Annotation: Explains the development and impact of various U.S. national subject area education standards; argues in favor of local establishment of curriculum and assessments rather than the national common core standards.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosopical Inquiry--Ampliative Criticism, Philosophical Inquiry--Speculative Essay
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Local Control of Schooling, Student Assessment

Annotation: Introduces a series of articles that address various issues in curriculum theory, such as: curriculum vs Didaktik, the history of curriculum theory work in various countries, epistemic issues, deliberative vs other approaches, and globalization.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Annotation: Describes six types of research: 1) fundamental, 2) early-stage or exploratory, 3) design and development, 4) efficacy, 5) effectiveness, and 6) scale-up -- along with their purposes, justification, methods, and outcomes; these guidelines are to assist investigators in preparing proposals to IES and NSF. A related document, Companion Guidelines on Replication and Reproducibility in Education Research (NSF, November 2018) discusses these two additional features and how research proposals should deal with them.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriulum Inquriy Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Government Role in Educational Research and Development

Annotation: Explores the consequences of utilizing lying and confusing opinion with truthful facts in current political debates and media; discusses the need for citizenship education to deal with these issues.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Visions and Philosophies
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosopical Inquiry--Ampliative Criticism, Philosophical Inquiry--Speculative Essay
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Citizenship Education

Annotation: Analyzes the rise and persistence of standards-based reforms in U. S. curriculum policy arenas; gives concrete details of the situation, ideas, and interests that interacted in the policy regimes surrounding standards-based reforms of the 80s and 90s, of No Child Left Behind Act, of Common Core State Standards, and of Every Student Succeeds Act; gives a thorough-going analysis, citing both strengths and weaknesses of each curriculum policy regime.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Historical Inquiry, Policy Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Currriculum History, Government Role in Educational Research & Development, Local Control of Schooling, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum Standards and Testing, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum

Annotation: Analyzes the concept of knowledge as it is recently found in the curriculum; analyzes what is thereby left out of the curriculum; demonstrates features of curriculum in space and curriculum in time; presents a basis for including both an outer curriculum (knowledge) and an inner curriculum (of self-thought).

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and the Disciplines, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Knowledge Utilization, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Annotation: Reports a study of the views of American educators about European Fascism between WW I and WW II and its conception of education; draws on the literature by key American educators from 1922-1941; treats propaganda, indoctrination, relativity, and fake news in the media of that period with implications for current circumstances.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Curriculum and Politics, Social Studies, Democratic Education, Ideology and School Knowledge

Annotation: Explores teachers' knowledge of the institutional curriculum and the content knowledge required to teach the content it specifies; thoroughly treats the related literature on the topic; draws implications for teacher education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Definitions, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry--Speculative Essay
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Teacher Knowledge, Curriculum and the Disciplines, Comparative Curriculum

Annotation: Reports comparative case studies in two California school districts on the decision making processes used in determining policies aimed at cutting extra-curricular activities; discourse analysis of deliberation by school board members and others was employed to locate cause and effect relationships among meanings held by these various actors; this study illustrates how organizational routines structure and influence the interpretation of meanings.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-Making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Content Analysis
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation

Annotation: Contains eleven articles describing various forms and practices of spiritual inquiry; draws on both eastern and western sources; offers examples of studies using a spiritual research paradigm; the introduction provides helpful definitions and characteristics of research of this type.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriulum Inquriy Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Religious Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Religious & Private Schooling, Curriculum as Experience, Qualitative Research, Self Knowledge

Annotation: Introduces a set of seven reports (which follow this preview) on how curriculum is made from curriculum policies in seven settings (Australia, Finland, United Kingdom, Scotland, Cyprus, Canada, Estonia); these studies illustrate curriculum-making at national, local, and classroom levels and utilize various forms of research; they introduce concepts and strategies such as policy actors, shared sense-making, enactment with freedom, curriculum brokers, teacher agency, effect of local circumstances; as background, this introduction reports the state of curriculum-making as revealed in the literature of the field; the seven papers were first presented in a 2017 European Conference on Curriculum Studies and provide a rich and varied understanding of how curriculum-making is actually done.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Currriculum Decision-Making Processes, Curriculum Definitions, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Implementation, Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum Development Strategies

Annotation: Gives reasons why the book by John Dewey (The Sources of a Science of Education, 1929) was largely ignored by educators until recently; notes its current rediscovery with respect to republication in English and French.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Classics of Curriculum Literature

Annotation: Reviews research done by the author over the past thirty years using critical action research methods; makes the case for this kind of research in giving voice to change needed in the education of the oppressed and marginalized.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Ethical Issues in Curriculum, Qualitative Research, Needs Assessment

Annotation: Discusses the nature of a spiritual research paradigm and its ontological, axiological, epistemological, and methodological bases; shows how spiritual knowledge can be uncovered through a methodology of dialogue; illustrates with classroom examples.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriulum Inquriy Guidelines, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Religious Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Religious & Private Schooling, Curriculum as Experience, Qualitative Research, Self Knowledge

Annotation: Reports a study of teachers' targeting their instruction toward specified competences found in five published sets of twenty-first century competences; findings fell into six dimensions that were studied for time and emphasis; draws implications for practice and research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Aims and Objectives

Annotation: Explores the moral significance of wonder in the education of the young; distinguishes several aspects of wonder and notes those having more significance for moral education; gives reasons for identifying the content of wonder in choosing educational experiences.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Visions and Philosophies
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry--Coneptual Analysis, Philosopical Inquiry--Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Moral Education, Curriculum Aims and Objectives

Annotation: Reports an ethnographic analysis of one team of Norwegian teachers doing local curriculum development; the process is examined using Knorr Cetina's notion of "knowledge object"; detailed episodes are reported; illustrates three steps found in the process; epistemic considerations are discussed.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-Making Processes, Curriculum Development, Organization, and Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies, Comparative Curriculum

Annotation: Describes the role of paradigms in general and as applied to educational research; discusses the nature of a spiritual research paradigm and points to studies that have used it to study spiritual phenomena.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriulum Inquriy Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Religious Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

Annotation: Argues for an embodied curriculum in which both cognitive, bodily, and environmental factors are acknowledged and educated; traces and critiques the rise of the disembodied curriculum; discusses the epistemology of reflective practice, the role of the learner's life experiences in an embodied curriculum, and the uses of technology in such a curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry--Speculative Essay
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience

Annotation: Examines Caroline Pratt's legacy from her City and Country School which she founded in New York City in 1914; identifies her progressive theory of curriculum with its emphasis on play and imagination (carefully defined).

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Curriculum History

Annotation: Analyzes the issues involved in parents' opting their children out of certain sex education topics vs the rights of civil society to support the rights of children to a comprehensive sex education curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry--Speculative Essay, Content Analysis, Philosopical Inquiry--Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Physical Education, Hidden Curriculum, Ethical Issues in Curriculum, Curriculum Aims and Objectives

Annotation: Reviews the literature on this topic and proposes a process for keeping the integrity of disciplinary knowledge along side the features of identity studies; points to the curriculum of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program as an example of this kind of integration.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study, Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry--Speculative Essay
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Integration, Content Selection and Organization

Annotation: Defines spiritual inquiry, explains five methods for doing it, and cites work using each method; discusses contrasts between spiritual inquiry and other kinds of inquiry.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Relgious Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Religious & Private Schooling

Annotation: Explores the appearance and recent history of the term "intentionality" as it is used in research in law and in education; introduces articles in this issue of RRE.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research and Inquiry -- General
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: SIngle Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

Annotation: Points out how Aoki's stance falls between the technological/instrumentalist mindset and that of the theologian in his conception of curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Professors, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Annotation: Contains 23 essays and a response by Pinar that identify his contributions to Curriculum Studies at home and abroad.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Professors, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Literature of Curriculum, Curriculum History

Annotation: Provides a detailed set of steps and procedures for combining the results of individual quantitative social science research studies into a meta-analysis of multiple studies through the use of a scientifically valid method of formal inquiry.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

Annotation: Describes a qualitative study of the changes in curriculum decision-making that occurred over an eleven-year span by 24 New Jersey teachers; reports the detailed patterns found for all 24 teachers; analyzed by levels taught and by preparation type (college or alternative route); a few broad conclusions are stated across individuals as well as for individuals over time.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation, Curriculum Implementation, Teacher Planning, Teaching/Learning Process, Teacher Education

Annotation: Places the works of Paraskeva in the context of the work of other curriculum theorists of the recent past; comments on Paraskeva's insights as well as on the state of the curriculum field.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Curriculum History, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Annotation: Analyzes the issue of disciplinary and interdisciplinary subjects in the curriculum by reference to some studies from UK, France, and Finland in light of Habermas's position; concludes that a balanced curriculum is desirable.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum and the Disciplines

Annotation: Reports a study of how teachers utilize curriculum materials in science, their practices and their input on student achievement; present six design principles for educative curriculum materials.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Materials Development and Evaluation

Annotation: Sums up Pinar's creative/intellectual and professional/personal contributions to the field of Curriculum Studies in general with some additional references to the Chinese and world-wide settings.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: American/International Curriculum Organizations, Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum as Experience, Curriculum History, Curriculum Professors, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Self-Knowledge

Annotation: Gives a straight-forward representation of many of Pinar's key ideas and personal traits--most especially his concepts of currere and autobiographical method.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Professors, Curriculum as Experience, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Annotation: Introduces a group of articles related to two books by Paraskeva (Conflicts in Curriculum Theory, 2011; Curriculum Epistemicide, 2016); briefly explains the primary features of the author's works and notes the highlights of the commentaries that follow is subsequent articles.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Professors, Comparative Curriculum, Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Annotation: Reports a study of the ways six British teachers developed their official curriculum for its use in their classrooms; some were seen as curriculum transmitters, some as curriculum makers, and some as curriculum developers; factors related to their training and their current circumstances were also examined in relation to these categories.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies, Curriculum Implementation, Teacher Planning, Teaching/Learning Process

Annotation: Sets forth a vision of curriculum based on trends in technology, literacy, mathematics, science, and educational policy; makes many specific recommendations for subject matter to be included and to be excluded; call the proposal a Passion Curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Aims and Objectives

Annotation: Presents a review of first-hand accounts of the school and studies made of it since its existence ended; one of the several dimensions of the review is the rationale for its curriculum; three myths are also analyzed.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Visions and Philosophies, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum History

Annotation: Pulls together implications for a possible curriculum based on his analysis (earlier in the book) of Socratic forms of dialectics-dialogues; shows how this model differs from today's knowledge-based forms of standardized education; sums up the nature of an education based on question-worthy normative assumptions and Socratic dialogue.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Curriculum as Experience, Teaching/Learning Process, Ethical Issues in Curriculum, Self-Knowledge, Values in the Classroom, Authority of Teacher

Annotation: Provides guidelines for synthesizing research focusing on the use of critical construct synthesis methods.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Linkage

Annotation: Reports an interview study in three U.S. school districts of leaders' advice for researchers; six general conclusions are among the findings.

Broad Topical Focus: Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Utilization

Annotation: Outlines a knowledge mobilization framework and uses it to analyze one case, the weekly online Marshall Memo; examines its purposes, contents, and subscribers' views; reports the types of sources included, methods of dissemination, meaningfulness to subscribers, and the nature of the entire process; also contains a good summary of the literature on knowledge brokerage, mobilization, and related topics.

Broad Topical Focus: Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Content Analysis
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Linkage, Knowledge Utilization

Annotation: Reviews the author's work in Sociology of Education as well as that of other key contributors; examines issues in the use (or non-use) of work done by sociologists of education and by educational policy workers in Britain.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum and Politics, Comparative Curriculum, Ideology and School Knowledge

Annotation: Reports on studies in six countries (Singapore, China, Chile, Mexico, India, United States--Massachusetts) on the degree to which they have included and successfully implemented 21st Century Knowledge and Skills as stipulated in the 2012 National Research Council list; summaries of cross-country differences and similarities are also included.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Curriculum Implementation, Program Audit/Evaluation

Annotation: Explores the concept of deliberative communication as something to be taught in democratic schools; draws heavily on Dewey and Habermas; example taken from Swedish school policy changes over the last two decades.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Curriculum Deliberation, Democratic Education, Ethical Issues in Curriculum, Comparative Curriculum

Annotation: Analyzes elements of policy-making decisions and those of policy implementation; proposes integrating political dimensions into implementation research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Deliberative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Implementation, Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Deliberation

Annotation: Make the case that epistemologies other than those generated by European and North American philosophers (e. g., those from the Global South) should be included in an "ecology of knowledge"; refers chiefly to non-scientific knowledges such as those based on the experience of persons and on various practice (especially of local knowledge and by subaltern groups); extensive explication of the concept is presented; offers thirteen observations as a basis for bringing about such an ecology of knowledge; the book containing this chapter discusses the concept of cognitive justice and its implications world-wide.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry, Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum and the Disciplines, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Practical Knowledge, Knowledge Utilization, Ideology and School Knowledge, Content Selection and Organization

Annotation: Reviews concepts and rationales related to curriculum, curriculum purposes, and curriculum content; raises questions about the concept of a curriculum canon.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Definitions, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum History, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Annotation: Traces the historical literature related to the concept of Bildung from its earliest usage to the present; shows how it contrasts with Anglo-Saxon and American concepts of curriculum studies and changing cultural contexts over time in Germany; highlights its possible use to counteract narrow test-based curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Comparative Curriculum, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Literature of Curriculum

Annotation: Gives evidence of the omission during the early 20th century of attention by both schools and the curriculum scholars community to the realities of Native American, Asian American, Mexican American, and African American histories.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Curriculum and Politics, Ideology and School Knowledge, Materials Development and Evaluation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Annotation: Draws on Dewey to argue for teachers' responsibility to implement curriculum ethically, amid mandates by corporatocratic policy makers to adhere with fidelity to specific education laws or regulations.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Curriculum Implementation, Ethical Issues in Curriculum, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum, Local Control of Schooling

Annotation: Explains the features of the Finnish educational system that has been completely supported by public funds and has attained top level global status in student achievement while remaining immune to the lure of the Global Education Reform movement with its opposite features of market-mechanisms, standarization of learning, test-based accountability,and neoliberal ideology.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum and Politics, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum, Curriculum Standards and Testing, Democratic Education, Local Control of Schooling

Annotation: Argues that the scholarly field of Curriculum Studies has lost its integrity because it has focused on theoretical issues rather than on the needs of its constituents to enhance 1) curriculum development and the insights of curriculum practice, 2) the experiences of students, and 3) curriculum policy.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Curriculum History, Curriculum Professors, Knowledge Generation

Annotation: Discusses both the Anglo-Saxon conception of Curriculum Studies and the German/European conception of the Didaktik tradition; notes the role of the teacher in these two traditions; raises questions regarding the teaching profession in light of these traditions.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Conceptions of Teaching, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Professionalization in Curriculum, Teacher Education

Annotation: Challenges the notion of universal knowledge as a basis for curriculum content; makes the case for incorporating a variety of indigenous knowledges into the curriculum; posits an indigenous discursive framework.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Ideology and School Knowledge, Knowledge Generation, Curriculum and Politics, Ethical Issues in Curriculum, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Annotation: Reports and analyzes a case study of a New Zealand school and its curriculum design processes; examines conceptual progression in particular.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Development Strategies

Annotation: Contains summaries of recent works within the field of Curriculum Studies around historical, political, multicultural, gender, and literary concepts of curriculum (in Volume 1) and around aesthetic, spiritual, cosmopolitan, ecological, cultural studies, post-colonial, post-strutural, and psychoanalytic concepts of curriculum (in Volume 2);

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Literature of Curriculum, Curriculum History, Curriculum Professors, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Knowledge Generation

Annotation: Presents a detailed study of the Committee and its work between 1924 and the publication of its report in the 1927 NSSE Yearbook; reconsiders whether it actually came to a consensus on principles of curriculum-making as its report says was its purpose; reactions found in later curriculum texts and by later professors are included.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum Development Strategies, Curriculum Professors

Annotation: Discusses and compares the U.S. concept of curriculum and the German/European concept of didaktik; analyzes dialogues between theorists about these two concepts and changes brought about by national standards and assessment policies.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Content Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Curriculum as Experience, Curriculum Professors, Discourse Analysis

Annotation: Introduces a series of reports in this issue of JCS that discuss a cross-nation study ("Organizing Curriculum Change") that examined and compared curriculum-making processes and policies of governments and commissions in Norway, United States (Illinois), Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, and United Kingdom. (See seven articles that follow.)

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Content Analysis, Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum Development Strategies

Annotation: Traces references to the inclusion of social issues in the curriculum during this period; discusses the rationales put forth for such inclusion.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation, Curriculum History, Democratic Education, Social Studies, Content Selection and Organization

Annotation: Explains the author's conception of an Itinerant Curriculum Theory; relates this to several philosophical issues--primarily to issues of epistemology; advocates against a curriculum canon and the exclusion of epistemologies from non-western cultures.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Comparative Curriculum, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum and Politics, Ideology and School Knowledge, Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Annotation: Argues that curriculum should focus on the individual's "making of oneself" or assisting with unfolding his/her identity and life; implications of this view are drawn; illustrations are presented from a Puerto Rican memoir.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Ethical Issues in Curriculum, Teaching/Learning Process

Annotation: Gives a preview of the 60 articles in their two-volume collection; see also Chapter 1 on "Conceptions of Curriculum," Chapter 7 on "Didactics," and Chapter 57 on "Local Freedom and National Prescriptions in Curriculum;" the Handbook is international in scope but written mainly by British scholars.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum History, Literature of Curriculum

Annotation: Presents an alternative 5-step way of defining what teachers do, the first of which is "portraying the curriculum"; describes this process as "live events", "activity flows", and judgements on "good portrayals" for which criteria can be prescribed.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Teaching/Learning Process, Teacher Education

Annotation: Examines fifteen books by leading curriculum theorists published during the decade of the 1980s; each essay is written by a doctoral student at Miami University in Ohio and provides both personal and professional judgments on the value of the ideas presented; see volumes with similar titles that contain analyses of other books published during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1990s by the same editor and publisher.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Literature of Curriculum, Curriculum History, Curriculum Professors, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Annotation: Recaps the perspectives of these two seemingly incompatible schools of thought and demonstrates how they may be brought together in the context of Chinese curriculum reform via Schwab's deliberative theory.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum Deliberation

Annotation: Presents a theoretical analysis of both competence and Bildung: explores the question of what should be learned in school and offers an alternative to competence-based models with a revised concept of Bildung in an effort to bridge the gap between schooling and the real world.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum