10 Great Curricula

10 Great Curricula is a collection of stories written by educators who have come to understand curricula differently as a result of theirengagement with a graduate course and its instructor. The book represents the best of what can be found in teaching and learning ingeneral and in the quest for meaningful ways to understand curricula in particular.The co-authors of this volume on 10 Great Curricula framed their inquiries into progressive democratic curricula at least initiallythrough Marsh and Willis' (2007) notions of planned enacted and lived curricula. These frames helped the writers think about how toengage a curriculum as it is developed delivered and lived by its participants and for the inquirers to actually become participantinquirersin the curriculum at hand. The chapters depict the power the possibility and the transformational potential of greatprogressive curricula today by locating them in schools and in the community by making them come alive to the reader and bysuggesting means through which the reader can adopt a more progressive democratic stance to curriculum despite the seeminglyoverwhelming nature of the conservative traditionalist instrumentalist movements in curriculum teaching and assessment today. Thebook is intended for students of education teaching and curriculum undergraduates graduates and practicing educationalprofessionals especially those looking for examples in the world in which progressivedemocratic ideals are nurtured and practiced.