Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
About the Book Series
In this age of multimedia information overload, scholars and students may not be able to keep up with the proliferation of different topical, trendy book series in the field of curriculum theory. It will be a relief to know that one publisher offers a balanced, solid, forward-looking series devoted to significant and enduring scholarship, as opposed to a narrow range of topics or a single approach or point of view. This series is conceived as the series busy scholars and students can trust and depend on to deliver important scholarship in the various "discourses" that comprise the increasingly complex field of curriculum theory.
The range of the series is both broad (all of curriculum theory) and limited (only important, lasting scholarship) – including but not confined to historical, philosophical, critical, multicultural, feminist, comparative, international, aesthetic, and spiritual topics and approaches. Books in this series are intended for scholars and for students at the doctoral and, in some cases, master's levels.
Persons interested in submitting book proposals or in serving as reviewers for this series are invited to contact:
Professor William F. Pinar, Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia, Canada
Faculty of Education
Department of Curriculum Studies
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4
Canada
EMAIL: [email protected]
Kirsty Murray, Commissioning Editor, Education Research, Routledge
EMAIL: [email protected]
Currere from Apartheid to Inclusion: Building Culturally Responsive Pedagogies in Post-Apartheid South Africa
1st Edition
By Shani Steyn
October 26, 2025
This volume demonstrates the instrumental use of Currere as a methodology to bring about Deracialisation through transformational learning by a white educator in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Offering an honest and vulnerable recognition of privilege and exclusivity, it disrupts deep-seated racial ...
Education at the Edge of Experience: Navigating the Unassimilable
1st Edition
By Marla Morris
October 26, 2025
Presenting a unique exploration of education at “the edge of experience,” this book investigates how unassimilable concepts can reconceptualize education in order to grapple with what is beyond understanding. Working at the intersection of curriculum theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, Morris ...
Myth, Manhood, and Curriculum: Towards Truth, Self-Cultivation, and Reparation
1st Edition
By James P. Burns
August 11, 2025
This book explores the historicized complexities of myths of manhood through a curriculum study that examines the historical emergence of the current propagandization of attacks on manhood in US public life. Narratives about manhood and masculinity are often predicated on concepts of violence, such...
Exile as an Educative Engagement: The Dizziness of Recognition
1st Edition
By Parmis Aslanimehr
June 29, 2025
This book explores the concept of exile, experienced not as a physical displacement but as a subjective experience of disconnection from the Other. It further clarifies the notion of exilic subjectivity, whereby a hidden facet of the self—ineffable both to the Other and to the Self—causes a ...
Curriculum and the Problem of Violence: Biopolitics, Truth, History and Fascism
1st Edition
By James P. Burns
May 05, 2025
This book is a genealogical inquiry into the present problem of violence, in the United States and internationally, through the lens of curriculum theory. It explores a constellation of problems including war, authoritarianism, post-truth, social disparities, and increasingly onerous surveillance ...
Practicing Pragmatism through Progressive Pedagogies: A Philosophical Lens for Grounding Classroom Teaching and Research
1st Edition
By Susan Jean Mayer
May 05, 2025
This book contributes to the contemporary revival of pragmatism as a practical and ultimately, as Mayer argues, necessary philosophical stance within democratic schools. Given that pragmatism addresses the question of how people can move forward in the absence of transcendent Truth, the author ...
The Ethics of Becoming a Good Teacher: In Conversation with Aristotle and Confucius
1st Edition
By Ying Ma
April 13, 2025
This book explores Aristotelian and Confucian wisdom traditions to understand education and what counts as a good teacher in an embodied dialogic approach. The book creates a dialogue between ancient ideas and the author’s lived experiences as a teacher in cross-cultural landscapes today to ...
Schooling, Human Capital and Civilization: A Brief History from Antiquity to the Digital Era
1st Edition
By Bruce Moghtader
December 19, 2024
This book explores the formation of human capital in education, interrogating its social and ethical implications, and examining its role in generating policies and practices that govern curriculum studies as an academic field. Using an inquiry approach and offering an intellectual history of ...
South Korean Education and Learning Excellence as a Hallyu: Ethnographic Understandings of a Nation’s Academic Success
1st Edition
By Young Chun Kim, Jae-seong Jo, Jung-Hoon Jung
December 19, 2024
This book constitutes a sociological, anthropological, and curricular inquiry into the factors surrounding high academic achievement rates of students in South Korea. Taking root in similar studies conducted around the exemplary nature of the Finnish education model, it explores the phenomenon of...
Currere and Psychoanalytic Guided Regression: Revisiting the Kent State Shootings
1st Edition
By Karl Martin
November 29, 2024
This book revisits the 1970 Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, using a new approach of currere and psychoanalytic guided regression. Drawing on a variety of interviews with those who were present at the events or who have close connections to the ...
Currere and Legacy in the Context of Family Business: Towards a New Theory of Intergenerational Learning
1st Edition
By Samuel Chen
October 09, 2024
This book presents a new conceptualization of the idea of legacy in a family business setting as an educational experience of teaching and learning between generations. Using the lived experience of the author, it combines autoethnography with a discussion on the influence of Chinese culture on ...
Curriculum Histories in Place, in Person, in Practice: The Louisiana State University Curriculum Theory Project
1st Edition
Edited
By Petra Hendry, Molly Quinn, Roland W. Mitchell, Jacqueline Bach
October 09, 2024
This book situates the Curriculum Theory Project at Louisiana State University within a larger historical framework of curriculum work, examining the practices which have sustained this type of curricular vitality over the lifetime of the field’s existence. Divided into seven parts, the authors ...