Powers of Curriculum

Sociological Aspects of Education
2. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-033384-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Powers of Curriculum explores education in Australia today through the notion and practices of curriculum. It broadens our conception of curriculum to include the lived experiences of learners in educational settings. It explores historical and current forces within and beyond education that constitute curriculum, and how curriculum powerfully shapes learners and their experiences of learning. As educators are central to the enactment and experiences of curriculum, the authors aim to equip readers with critical and post-structuralist ideas, concepts and perspectives that can make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people in the early childhood, primary and secondary phases of education.

This resource explores a diverse range of topics related to curriculum, education, culture and society. The text is organised into three parts: Introduction to Curriculum; Unpacking Curriculum Contexts; and Enacting Curriculum Experiences. The first part introduces you to the notion of curriculum and its relationship to education. The second part examines a range of social, cultural and political issues that influence the enactment and experiences of curriculum across diverse settings. The final part explores the practical dimension to your learning about curriculum. The authors encourage you to use the book's concepts and ideas to open education to new thoughts and practices.
The authors encourage readers to use the book's concepts and ideas to create learning experiences that are rich, engaging, intellectually stimulating, respectful and meaningful from the point of view of learners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gobby, Brad

Walker, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO CURRICULUM

- Ch 1: What is Curriculum?

- Ch 2: Using theory to think critically about education

- Ch 3: A history of schooling and the making of children

- Ch 4: Exploring and embracing learner diversity through a sociological lens

- Ch 5: Educators' philosophies: encountering and weaving images

- PART 2: UNPACKING CURRICULUM CONTEXTS

- Ch 6: Neoliberalism, education and curriculum

- Ch 7: The education system and social class: a shifting relationship

- Ch 8: The trap of binary thinking: problematising gender and social disadvantage

- Ch 9 Understanding the techniques of colonialism: indigenous educational justice

- Ch 10: Rethinking Australia's cultural diversity

- Ch 11: Psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience in education

- Ch 12: Identity formation: consumerism and popular culture

- PART 3: ENACTING CURRICULUM EXPERIENCES

- Ch 13: Critically reflective practice: what is it and why is it needed now?

- Ch 14: The virtual schoolbag and pedagogies of engagement

- Ch 15: Environment as curriculum

- Ch 16: Digital technologies, schooling and children's rights

- Ch 17: Datafication and assessment

- Ch 18: Planning the curriculum

- Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Brad Gobby is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Curtin University, Western Australia.

Dr Rebecca Walker is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Western Australia.