Teaching Convictions: Critical Ethical Issues and Education explores ethical issues in schools and society from the vantage-point of critical theory, democratic community, aesthetics, ecology, hermeneutics, and constructive postmodernism. This text discusses social constructions of reality and the contribution of postmodern theories to justice, compassion, and ecological sustainability in the challenging and difficult context of today's global society. The authors present life experiences and personal convictions in a narrative, autobiographical style without positioning themselves as passive observers of education or ethics nor as dispassionate investigators of ethical systems. Rather, they actively promote vision and aesthetic sensibilities as they examine their understanding of schools and society using examples from their life experiences. By referring to the arts, ecology, identity politics, theology, race and gender theories in their story of critical ethical issues and education, the authors weave a narrative of their teaching convictions in relation to moral issues.

Ethics and the Foundations of Education: Teaching Convictions in a Postmodern World

Education & Teaching

Slattery, Patrick

Rapp, Dana

Schools & Teaching

Allyn&Bacon

Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Accountability

This landmark text was one of the first to introduce and analyze contemporary concepts of curriculum that emerged from the Reconceptualization of curriculum studies in the 1970s and 1980s. This new edition brings readers up to date on the major research themes (postmodernism,ecological, hermeneutics, aesthetics and arts-based research, race, class, gender, sexuality, and classroom practices) within the historical development of the field from the 1950s to the present. Like the previous editions, it is unique in providing a comprehensive overview in a relatively short and highly accessible text. Provocative and powerful narratives (both biography and autoethnography) throughout invite readers to engage the complex theories in a personal conversation. School-based examples allow readers to make connections to schools and society, teacher education, and professional development of teachers. Changes in the Third Edition <ul>
<li>New Glossary - brief summaries in the text direct readers to the Companion Website to read the entire entries</li> <li>New analysis of the current accountability movement in schools including the charter school movement.</li> <li>More international references clearly connected to international contexts </li> <li>More narratives invite readers to engage the complex theories in a personal conversation</li> <li>Companion Website–new for this edition</li>
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Routledge

Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era provided the first introduction to and analysis of contemporary concepts of curriculum development in relation to postmodernism. It challenged educators to transcend purely traditional approaches to curriculum development and instead to incorporate various postmodern discourses into their reflection and action in schools. Since its publication in 1995, the curriculum studies field has exploded, the very notion of the postmodern has shifted and the landscape of American schooling has changed dramatically - federal policies like "No Child Left Behind" have dramatically increased the focus on accountability and consequently what and how teachers teach.  In this much-anticipated and thoroughly updated edition, noted curriculum studies scholar Patrick Slattery tackles these and other issues to reflect on the current state of curriculum development and on where the field may go from here.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era provided the first introduction to and analysis of contemporary concepts of curriculum development in relation to postmodernism. It challenged educators to transcend purely traditional approaches to curriculum development and instead to incorporate various postmodern discourses into their reflection and action in schools. Since its publication in 1995, the curriculum studies field has exploded, the very notion of the postmodern has shifted and the landscape of American schooling has changed dramatically - federal policies like "No Child Left Behind" have dramatically increased the focus on accountability and consequently what and how teachers teach. In this much-anticipated and thoroughly updated edition, noted curriculum studies scholar Patrick Slattery tackles these and other issues to reflect on the current state of curriculum development and on where the field may go from here.

Written from a cutting-edge perspective, Contextualizing Teaching offers a critical and constructive way of looking at the world and thinking about teaching and learning in schools. The book reviews a wide range of historical, philosophical, and social literature from a postmodern perspective, and the authors provide illustrative examples and case studies from personal experience, which illuminate the themes they discuss.

Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations

Steinberg, Shirley R.

Kincheloe, Joe L.

Longman

Shelf wear with creasing to cover. Writing marks, mostly underlining, throughout book.

Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era (Critical Education Practice)

Social Sciences

Perhaps not since Ralph Tyler’s (1949) Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction has a book communicated the field as completely as Understanding Curriculum. From historical discourses to breaking developments in feminist, poststructuralist, and racial theory, including chapters on political theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, theology, international developments, and a lengthy chapter on institutional concerns, the American curriculum field is here. It will be an indispensable textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses alike.

Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to the Study of Historical and Contemporary Curriculum Discourses (Counterpoints, Vol. 17)

Pinar, William F.

Taubman, Peter M.

Reynolds, William M.

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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Books by Slattery, Patrick

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Ethics and the Foundations of Education: Teaching Convictions in a Postmodern World

Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Accountability

Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Accountability

Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Accountability

Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Accountability

Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations

Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era (Critical Education Practice)

Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to the Study of Historical and Contemporary Curriculum Discourses (Counterpoints, Vol. 17)