The Path Less Taken: Immanent Critique in Curriculum and Pedagogy

by James G. Henderson, Jennifer L. Schneider

Overview

G.W.F. Hegel’s concept of immanent critique, as filtered through John Dewey’s notion of experience, serves as the touchstone for this argument. Maxine Greene’s educational philosophy serves as a key inspirational referent. Since immanent critique is underdeveloped in education, it is the path less taken. A particular approach to the practice of immanent critique in education is illustrated through a set of essays that address the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group’s mission statement and through concluding professional development and teacher leadership narratives. A simulated town hall meeting provides further insights into this critical approach and hints at other ways immanent critique might be practiced in education. This collection offers a fresh examination of the epistemological foundations of curriculum studies through the lens of the ten-year history of the Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference and Publications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781891928383
Publisher:	Educator's International Press
Publication date:	06/01/2014
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

JAMES HENDERSON is a Professor of Curriculum Studies at Kent State University, where he has taught graduate courses for over twenty years. His research focuses on the arts of democratic curriculum leadership, and he has individually or collaboratively published five books and over sixty essays on this topic. He helped launch the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy and served as its co-editor for its first six years. He has been an officer for the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS) and the factotum for the Professors of Curriculum Society.

Editorial Reviews

It is one thing to call for complicated conversations—as many of us in curriculum studies have done in recent years—and it is quite another to facilitate these conversations. Jim Henderson has done just that. The Path Less Taken covers deep understanding of the curriculum issues facing educators today. Not only does it scaffold deliberate conversations, but the book also models this kind of complicated conversation on an international scale. For educators who seek deep understanding of curriculum, this book is a “must read.

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