Conflicts in Curriculum Theory: Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies

by Joïo M. Paraskeva

Overview

Since its original publication, Conflicts in Curriculum Theory has firmly established itself as the key volume that not only advanced alternative ways to think about education and curriculum but also introduced innovative scholarship and a radical conceptual grammar for the field. In this revised second edition, Paraskeva addresses current epistemological shifts and avenues within and beyond counter-dominant Eurocentric curriculum perspectives. In this second edition, which includes a new introduction, he provides a critical examination of the modern Eurocentric curriculum and introduces readers to new theoretically rich concepts of "curriculum momentism," "curriculum involution", and "curriculum Occidentosis", pushing the curriculum debate far beyond the classical Eurocentric matrix.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030774226
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/25/2021
Series:	Education, Politics and Public Life
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2021
Pages:	339
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

João M. Paraskeva is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. His latest books are Curriculum and The Generation of Utopia: Interrogating the Current State of Critical Curriculum Theory and Critical Transformative Leadership and Policy Studies: Discussions and Solutions from the Leading Voices in Education - A Reader.

Table of Contents

Foreword Second Edition
A Foreword - Second Edition
Theory not as a schema for ‘acting’, but for ‘looking’
Dwayne Huebner

Introduction Second Edition

Foreword First Edition
Re-inserting historicity into the curriculum
Donaldo Macedo

Introduction First Paper Back Edition
Itinerant Curriculum Theory: Opening up the Western curriculum canon

Chapter 1
Introduction to the First Edition: There is a river
Chapter 2
The nature of conflict
Chapter 3
The Struggle over knowledge control
Chapter 4
A simplistic tool for a lethal phenomenon
Chapter 5
The emergence of Ralph Tyler
Chapter 6
The Prosser resolution
Chapter 7
The struggle for curriculum relevance
Chapter 8
The emergence and vitality of a specific critical curriculum river
Chapter 9
Challenging epistemicides: Toward an itinerant curriculum theory
Chapter 10
Double scandal. Itinerant curriculum theory as the subaltern non-abyssal turn
Chapter 11
Curriculum Afterword: The Dialogue Dwayne Huebner and João M. Paraskeva

Afterword First Paperback Edition
Epistemologies for a new world
Antonia Darder

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Paraskeva’s work is serious work. His work is one more attempt to challenge the vast, incoherent landscape of discourse about curriculum. What Paraskeva has done for ‘curriculum’ and ‘education’ in this past century now needs to be done for the many components that make up the complex phenomena of curriculum. I tried to see education, specifically curriculum, through different lens, and on this, Paraskeva follows my lead.” (Dwayne Huebner, Horace Bushnell Professor Emeritus, Yale University, USA)

“In Conflicts in Curriculum Theory, João M. Paraskeva has written an extraordinarily important and timely book. The principal arguments of this volume are rigorously formulated and thoughtfully presented. It is a necessary and trenchant intervention in an age full of sound and fury in the curriculum field and elsewhere in contemporary society. Using the spatial referent of the river as a central organizing metaphor, Paraskeva expertly navigates the boisterous tributaries of the curriculum field cautioning us against neoliberal self-satisfaction, disciplinary tribalism, and dogmatism that he notes undermine meaningful communicative action and purposive orientation towards truly transformative change. This is a tour de force of a book filled with glittering forays and powerful, expansive, pragmatic, and prescriptive insight. Paraskeva's is a sharp, incisive, and distinctive voice. Conflicts in Curriculum Theory is rich, provocative and eminently readable.” (Cameron McCarthy, Professor of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

“A powerful challenge to the underlying epistemological forces of schooling, which have well-sustained a hidden curriculum of cultural invasion and made a mockery of indigenous knowledge. In light of this travesty, Paraskeva's timely volume calls for an uncompromising reassertion of history, culture, and politics into our understanding, formation, and practice of what constitutes a decolonizing curriculum - one boldly committed to social justice and the unlimited democratic possibilities inherent in our humanity.” (Antonia Darder, Leavey Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University, USA)

Editorial Reviews

"In Conflicts in Curriculum Theory, João M. Paraskeva has written an extraordinarily important and timely book. The principal arguments of this volume are rigorously formulated and thoughtfully presented. It is a necessary and trenchant intervention in an age full of sound and fury in the curriculum field and elsewhere in contemporary society. Using the spatial referent of the river as a central organizing metaphor, Paraskeva expertly navigates the boisterous tributaries of the curriculum field cautioning us against neoliberal self-satisfaction, disciplinary tribalism, and dogmatism that he notes undermine meaningful communicative action and purposive orientation towards truly transformative change. This is a tour de force of a book filled with glittering forays and powerful, expansive, pragmatic, and prescriptive insight. Paraskeva's is a sharp, incisive, and distinctive voice. Conflicts in Curriculum Theory is rich, provocative and eminently readable." Cameron McCarthy, Professor of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

"A powerful challenge to the underlying epistemological forces of schooling, which have well-sustained a hidden curriculum of cultural invasion and made a mockery of indigenous knowledge. In light of this travesty, Paraskeva's timely volume calls for an uncompromising reassertion of history, culture, and politics into our understanding, formation, and practice of what constitutes adecolonizing curriculum - one boldly committed to social justice and the unlimited democratic possibilities inherent in our humanity." Antonia Darder, Leavey Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University, USA

"Paraskeva provides us with a map of the river that is Western curriculum history with as many cross-currents, eddies, flows, and branching streams as the Mississippi; but, more importantly, he provides us a corrected vision drawn from the work of African and other non-Western scholars to provide the direction and hope necessary for a justly democratic deterritorialized curriculum theory." - Richard Quantz, Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Miami University, Ohio, USA

"Conflicts in Curriculum Theory: Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies, makes an important and timely contribution to the internationalization of curriculum studies." - Alberta Journal of Educational Research

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