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Description of  Enacting Praxis: How Educators Embody Curriculum Studies

0807769061 rar 0807769061 rar In this collection of writing and reflection, readers are invited to reclaim the connection between curriculum studies and the work of educators in schools and society. As the curriculum field has grown more complex and theoretical, our schools have become more corporatized, standardized, and dehumanized. This volume focuses on curriculum theorys power to assist practitioners in creating positive change. Chapters highlight the work of seven influential curriculum studies scholars: Maxine Greene, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Janet Miller, William Pinar, William Schubert, William Watkins, and Carter G. Woodson. After introducing and contextualizing the work of each featured theorist, the text includes chapters by scholarpractitioners working as K12 teachers, teacher educators, and community educators who have been influenced by the theorists ideas. These essays illustrate how curriculum studies scholarship influences practice in a variety of places explore the ways that curriculum studies theorizing can be an intervention against technical pedagogical or curricular approaches and focus on the importance of conversations between theory and practice. Read more