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Beskrivning
This book is an exposition of how political, cultural, historical, and economic structures and processes shape the nature and character of curriculum landscapes globally.
Ashwani Kumar is Associate Professor of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. He is the author of Curriculum As Meditative Inquiry (2013).
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Curriculum Studies in South Africa: Colonialism, Constructivism, and Outcomes-Based Education.- Chapter 3. Curriculum Studies in Brazil: Marxism, Postmodernism, and Multiculturalism.- Chapter 4. Curriculum Studies in Mexico: Technical Rationality, Curriculum Communities, and Neoliberal Globalization.- Chapter 5. Curriculum As a Process of Conditioning in Asia: Ideology, Politics, and Religion.- Chapter 6. Indian Social Studies Curriculum in Transition: Effects of a Paradigm Shift in Curriculum Discourse.- Chapter 7. Postmodern Turn in North American Social Studies Education: Considering Identities, Contexts, and Discourses.- Chapter 8. The Menace of Neoliberal Education Reforms: Where Capitalism, Behaviorism, and Positivism Meet.