The Reason of Schooling - Historicizing Curriculum Studies, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education (Hardcover)

Problematizing the reason of schooling as historical and political, leading international and interdisciplinary scholars bring together theory and practice to challenge the assumed common sense of schooling and the relation of society, education, and curriculum studies. Examining the limits of contemporary notions of power and schooling, the argument in this book is that the principles that order school subjects, the curriculum, and teaching reforms are historical practices that govern what is thought, acted on, and talked about. Highlighting the dynamics of social exclusion and normalizing curriculum and exploring questions of social inclusion, The Reason of Schooling underscores the urgency for rethinking curriculum research.