Curriculum Windows

Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1970s Can Teach Us about Schools and SocietyToday is an effort by students of curriculum studies along with their professor to interpret and understandcurriculum texts and theorists of the 1970s in contemporary terms. The authors explore how key books/authors from the curriculum field of the 1970s illuminate new possibilities forward for us as scholareducatorstoday: How might the theories practices and ideas wrapped up in curriculum texts of the 1970sstill resonate with us allow us to see backward in time and forward in time - all at the same time? Howmight these figurative windows of insight thought ideas fantasy and fancy make us think differentlyabout curriculum teaching learning students education leadership and schools? Further how mightthey help us see more clearly even perhaps put us on a path to correct the mistakes and missteps ofintervening decades and of today? The chapter authors and editor revisit and interpret several of the most important works of the 1970s by NormanOverly Michael Apple Eliot Eisner John Goodlad Louise Berman William Reid Bill Pinar Daniel Tanner Laurel Tanner Maxine Greene JamesMacDonald and Joseph Schwab. The book's Foreword is by renowned curriculum theorist William H. Schubert.