Curriculum Visions

«‘Curriculum Visions’ is extraordinary reading – intriguing, challenging, and thought provoking. Curriculum inquiry is carried far beyond the ghosts of American, as well as European, curriculum traditions. For a Nordic and European audience especially, curriculum scholars, teachers, and students alike, William E. Doll’s five C’s – Curriculum as Currere, Complexity, Cosmology, Conversation, and Community – offer an articulated vision of future life for curriculum.» (Bjørg Brandtzeg Gundem, University of Oslo, Norway)«An exhilarating, many-voiced exploration of curriculum as concept and as practice, but more than that –an adventure in thinking. ‘Curriculum Visions’ is a rich and important contribution to curriculum inquiry and curriculum work, and a major addition to the burgeoning literature on curriculum reconceptualization. Featuring some of our leading writers and scholars and shaped significantly by new historical and theoretical lenses, it will certainly ‘haunt’ the next generation of the curriculum field.» (Bill Green, Charles Sturt University, Australia)«‘Curriculum Visions’ is one of those rare texts that does what it is about. Enacting its topic, it brings the past newly into the present, exorcises ghosts, questions its assertions, permits contradictions, keeps foundations fluid, and in so doing allows for the appearance of curriculum visions both within its own pages and in the minds of readers. It will be an invaluable text for inspiriting Canadian curriculum studies.» (Antoinette Oberg, University of Victoria, Canada)«‘Curriculum Visions’ is a collection of intellectual conversations full of seminal ideas and imaginations which provoke me to rethink my curriculum experiences and philosophical positions about the nature of human beings, the future of human society, and the destiny of human civilizations. The papers in the book are curriculum journeys of diverse talents and scholarship with immense romanticism, which will be haunting the world of curriculum studies for years to come.» (Edmond Law, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, China)

• Contents: Noel Gough: Voicing Curriculum Visions – William E. Doll, Jr.: Ghosts and the Curriculum – Wendi Broussard: Perspective on Doll – C.A. Bowers: Toward a Cultural and Ecological Understanding of Curriculum – Ellen Wickersham: Perspective on Bowers – Deborah P. Britzman: The Death of Curriculum? – William F. Pinar: Robert Musil and the Crisis of European Culture in America – Peggy R. McConnell: Perspective on Britzman and Pinar – Cleo H. Cherryholmes: Curriculum Ghosts and Vision - and What to Do? – Ellen Wickersham: Perspective on Cherryholmes – Peter Cole/Patricia O’Riley: Much Rezadieux about (Dewey’s) Goats in the Curriculum: Looking Back on Tomorrow Yesterday – Peggy R. McConnell: Perspective on Cole and O’Riley – M. Jayne Fleener: Logical Foundations for an Organocentric Curriculum: Dewey’s Logic and Complexity Sciences – Karen E. Sullivan: Perspective on Fleener – Noel Gough: The Long Arm(s) of Globalization: Transnational Imaginaries in Curriculum Work – John Stewart: Perspective on Gough – Kathleen Kesson/Donald Oliver: On the Need for a Re-Conceptualized Theory of Experience – Janis Pardue Hill: Perspective on Kesson and Oliver – Alex Molnar: The Commercial Transformation of America’s Schools – Patricia Thomson: Perspective on Molnar – Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore: Curriculum: A Journey Through Complexity, Community, Conversation, Culmination – Carol Williams: Perspective on Moore – Molly Quinn: Holy Vision, Wholly Vision-ing: Curriculum and the Legacy of the Chariot – Deborah J. Davis: Perspective on Quinn – John St. Julien: Haunting Curriculum: Visions of Curriculum Past, Curriculum Present and a Vision of What is Yet-to-Come – Kristin Kight: Perspective on St. Julien – Donna Trueit: Speaking of Ghosts... – Brian Casemore/Nichole Guillory: Perspective on Trueit – Hongyu Wang: The Call from the Stranger: Dwayne Huebner’s Vision of Curriculum as a Spiritual Journey – Donna Porche-Frilot: Perspective on Wang.