Toward a Poor Curriculum - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891928481 ISBN 13: 9781891928482

Publisher: Educators Intl Pr Inc, 2014

Synopsis

In 1976 William Pinar and Madeline Grumet published the first edition of Toward a Poor Curriculum in order to express their resistance to “the mind numbing bureaucracy of the accountability trend of the times: behavioral objectives, and to propose a humanities methodology and alternative to the social science inquiries that were dominating research” (Pinar & Grumet, 2014, p. ii). In 2014, with increasing standardization and bureaucratization of both K–12 and higher education institutions, this text remains a relevant and urgent read for educators and researchers alike. This 3rd edition features new material by the authors and an afterword by Robert Lake and Tricia Kress.

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About the Author

WILLIAM PINAR is an American educator, curriculum theorist and international studies scholar. Known for his work in the area of curriculum theory, Pinar is strongly associated with the reconceptualist movement in curriculum theory since the early 1970s. In the early 1970s, along with Madeleine Grumet, Pinar introduced the notion of currere, shifting in a radical manner the notion of curriculum as a noun to curriculum as a verb. Apart from his fundamental contributions to theory, Pinar is notable for establishing the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, founding the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, and founding the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Educators Intl Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1891928481
• ISBN 13: 9781891928482
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 271
• Editor: Pinar William F., Grumet Madeleine R.