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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190303700
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190303709
• Author: Dr Brad Gobby

Curriculum is powerful because it shapes what children and young people experience in educational settings. Educators are central to this as more often than not they have the most direct influence on learners’ curriculum experiences. Powers of Curriculum explores the many issues surrounding curriculum in order to equip future educators with 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.

The book explores a diverse range of topics related to curriculum, the experiences of learners, and how these experiences are shaped by powers within and beyond the field of education. The text is organised into three sections: Understanding Curriculum; Unpacking Curriculum Issues; and Using and Enacting Curriculum. The first section introduces the notion of curriculum and its conceptualisation. The second section introduces a range of socio-cultural issues from a sociological perspective. The final section considers the practical dimension to learning about curriculum. The authors of the chapters encourage readers to reflect on their opinions and experiences, and to explore the concepts and ideas used in the chapters to open education up to new thoughts and practices.
Table contents:

1.What is Curriculum?

2.Schooling, Its History and Power

3.Questioning How and What We Know: New Concepts to Approach Education

4.Educators Philosophies: Encountering and Weaving

5.Critically Reflective Practice: What Is It and Why Is It Needed Now?

6.Neoliberalism, Education and Curriculum

7.The Education System and SES: Mapping Disadvantage

8.The Trap of Binary Thinking: Problematising Gender and Social Disadvantage

9.Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience in Education

10.Identity Formation: Consumerism and Popular Culture

11.Rethinking Australias Cultural Diversity

12.Understanding the Techniques of Colonialism: Indigenous Educational Justice

13.Testing Times for Assessment and Pedagogy
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