A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum (Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought Series) - Hardcover

Jr., William E. Doll

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807732176 ISBN 13: 9780807732175

Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 1993

Synopsis

Doll draws relationships among the ideas advanced in chaos theory, Piagetian epistemology, cognitive theory, and the work of Dewey and Whitehead. In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction, transaction, disequilibrium and consequent equilibrium. Transformation, not a set course, the book argues, should be the rule, and open-endedness is an essential feature of the post-modern framework. In the book, the author envisages a curriculum in which the teacher's role is not causal, but transformative. The curriculum is not the race course, but the journey itself; metaphors can be more useful than logic in generating dialogue in the community; and educative purpose, planning and evaluation is flexible and focused on process, not product.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807732176
• ISBN 13: 9780807732175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232