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International handbook of curriculum research / edited by William F. Pinar.

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This international handbook of curriculum research reports on scholarly developments and school curriculum development initiatives worldwide. Thirty-six essays on 29 nations, plus four essays of introduction, provide a panoramic and in-depth view of the state of curriculum studies globally.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Pinar, William F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
Series:Studies in curriculum theory.
Subjects:
Curriculum planning > Research > Cross-cultural studies.
Education > Curricula > Research > Cross-cultural studies.
Curriculum change > Cross-cultural studies.
Comparative education.
Curriculum change.
Curriculum planning > Research.
Education > Curricula > Research.
Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Four essays of introduction
  • Curriculum and teaching face globalization / David Geoffrey Smith
  • Thinking globally in environmental education : implications for internationalizing curriculum inquiry / Noel Gough
  • The triumph of multiplicity and the carnival of difference : curriculum dilemmas in the age of postcolonialism and globalization / Claudia Matus and Cameron McCarthy
  • A history of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction (WCCI) / Norman V. Overly
  • Thirty-four essays on curriculum studies in 28 nations
  • Curriculum studies in Argentina : documenting the constitution of a field / Silvina Feeney and Flavia Terigi
  • The development of curriculum thought in Argentina / Mariano Palamidessi and Daniel Feldman
  • Curriculum inquiry in Australia : toward a local geneaology of the curriculum field / Bill Green
  • The decolonization of curriculum in Botswana / Sid N. Pandey and Fazlur R. Moorad
  • The curriculum field in Brazil : emergence and consolidation / Antonio Flavio Barbosa Moreira
  • The curriculum field in Brazil in the 1990s / Alice Casimiro Lopes and Elizabeth Fernandes de Macedo
  • In search of a vision : how Brazil is struggling to envision citizenship for its public schools / Silvia Elizabeth Moraes
  • "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances" : a view of contemporary curriculum discourses in Canada / Cynthia Chambers
  • Curriculum studies in China : retrospect and prospect / Hua Zhang and Qiquan Zhong
  • In search of a quality curriculum in Hong Kong / Edmond Hau-Fai Law
  • Learning for the future in Estonia : content revisited and reconceptualized / Urve Laanemets
  • Postmodern paradoxes in Finland : the confinements of rationality in curriculum studies / Tero Autio
  • Understanding curriculum in France : a multifaceted approach to thinking education / Denise Egea-Kuehne
  • The landscape of curriculum inquiry in the republic of Ireland / Kevin Williams and Gerry McNamara
  • Curriculum planning at the threshold of the third millennium : the Israeli case / Naama Sabar and Yehoshua Mathias
  • Curriculum reform in Italy in a European perspective / M. Vicentini
  • Japan's struggle for the formation of modern elementary school curriculum : westernization and hiding cultural dualism in the late 19th century / Miho Hashimoto
  • Present state of curriculum studies in Japan / Tadahiko Abiko
  • Japanese educational reform for the 21st century : the impact of the new course of study toward the postmodern era in Japan / Shigeru Asanuma
  • Curriculum research : evolution and outlook in Mexico / Angel Diaz Barriga
  • Main trends of curriculum research in Mexico / Frida Diaz Barriga
  • What education scholars write about curriculum in Namibia and Zimbabwe / Jonathan D. Jansen
  • Curriculum theory in the Netherlands / Willem Wardekker, Monique Volman, and Jan Terwel
  • Contemporary curriculum research in New Zealand / Peter Roberts
  • Curriculum theory and research in Norway : traditions, trends, and challenges / Bjorg B. Gundem, Berit Karseth, and Kirsten Sivesind
  • Back to Itacka : curriculum studies in Romania / Nicolae Sacalis
  • Politics and theories in the history of curricular reform in South Korea / Yonghwan Lee
  • In Southeast Asia : Phillipines, Malaysia, and Thailand : conjunctions and collisions in the global cultural economy / F.D. Rivera
  • Frame factors, structures, and meaning making : shifting foci of curriculum research in Sweden / Ulla Johansson
  • Curriculum study in Taiwan : retrospect and prospect / Jeng-Jye Hwang and Chia-Yu Chang
  • Curriculum development in Turkey / F. Dilek Gozutok
  • Subject, not subjects : curriculum pathways, pedagogies and practices in the United Kingdom / David Hamilton and Gaby Weiner
  • A random harvest : a multiplicity of studies in American curriculum history research / Craig Kridel and Vicky Newman
  • Hermeneutics, subjectivity, and aesthetics : internationalizing the interpretive process in U.S. curriculum research / Patrick Slattery.

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