Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Volume 2- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks

by JosYp Martn

Overview

Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The literature reviewed in this volume reflects current issues and discussions taking place in education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies and aesthetics; spirituality; cosmopolitanism; ecology; cultural studies; postcolonialism; poststructuralism; and psychoanalytic theory. These theoretical frameworks will provide students in the field of education with the tools that they need to theorize around the concept of curriculum. This is an interdisciplinary book that will be of interest to students outside the field of education who are studying aesthetics, spirituality, cosmopolitanism, ecology, cultural studies, postcolonialism, poststructuralism, and psychoanalytic theory. It could be used in such education courses as curriculum studies; social foundations of education; philosophy of education; cultural curriculum studies; critical and contemporary issues in education; narrative inquiry in education; and qualitative studies in education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433131271
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	12/23/2015
Series:	Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education , #499
Pages:	434
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Marla Morris (PhD, Louisiana State University) is Professor of Education at Georgia Southern University. Morris is the author of On Not Being Able to Play: Scholars, Musicians and the Crisis of Psyche; Teaching Through the Ill Body: A Spiritual and Aesthetic Approach to Pedagogy and Illness; Jewish Intellectuals and the University; and Curriculum and the Holocaust: Competing Sites of Memory and Representation.
Morris is author of numerous journal articles in the field of curriculum studies. In 2003 she won the Critic’s Choice Award (American Educational Studies Association) for her book
on the Holocaust and the Jack Miller Award for Scholarship and Creativity at Georgia Southern University in 2004.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction – Aesthetic curriculum concepts – Spiritual curriculum concepts – Cosmopolitan curriculum concepts – Ecological curriculum concepts – Cultural studies curriculum concepts – Postcolonial curriculum concepts – Poststructural curriculum concepts – Psychoanalytic curriculum concepts.