The Reemergence of Curriculum Theory

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will focus on an emerging body of theoretically rich discourse that has the potential to re-theorize and enrich debates about curriculum that have in recent years become lost in the current fascination with standards, outcomes, and accountability. Like Diane Ravitch’s new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, this discourse places curriculum at the center of debates about curriculum. But unlike Ravitch’s book, this discourse gives credence in these debates to issues of curriculum theory. The symposium will bring together the work of a number of curriculum thinkers from different national settings whose work serves to reanimate the kinds of discussions that once were the hallmark of the curriculum field.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Section 3: Challenging Methodological Boundaries in Curriculum Inquiry

Chair

• Barry M. Franklin, Utah State University

Papers

• Curriculum and Making Human Kinds - Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin

• Can Market Capitalism Be Greened? Environmental Education Revisited - Deb J. Hill, The University of Liverpool; Lynley Tulloch, University of Waikato

• The Privatization of Spanish Education: Implications for Curriculum - Antonio Olmedo, Institute of Education - University of London

• The Discursive Field of Civic Education in China and the United States - Steven Paul Camicia, Utah State University; Juanjuan Zhu, Utah State University

Discussants

• Lynn Fendler, Michigan State University

• Barry M. Franklin, Utah State University