Product Description: Reconceptualizing Curriculum Development provides accessible, clear guidance on curriculum problem solving and educational leadership through the practice of a synoptic curriculum study. This practice integrates three influential interpretations of curriculum―curriculum as deliberative artistry, curriculum as complicated conversation, and curriculum as currere―with John Dewey’s lifetime work on reflective inquiry...read more

Product Description: G.W.F. Hegel’s concept of immanent critique, as filtered through John Dewey’s notion of experience, serves as the touchstone for this argument. Maxine Greene’s educational philosophy serves as a key inspirational referent. Since immanent critique is underdeveloped in education, it is the path less taken...read more

Product Description: Written by two of the most-recognized names in the field, the heart of this book revolves around the seven “modes of inquiry” that serve as guiding principles for designing curriculum that meets the needs of students, educators, parents, and the community at large...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This successful book introduces current and future teachers to the concept of professional inquiry, integrating five forms of it into their work, to facilitate reflective democratic living that is rooted in the practice of a generative and generous intellect...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Transformative Curriculum Leadership provides concrete guidance on how to practice a curriculum based on problem solving that integrates constructivist learning with democratic understanding.  The book is organized around the leadership experiences of the assistant superintendent, and it contains a wealth of guiding rubrics, figures, images, and illustrations...read more

Product Description: Reflective Teaching: Becoming an Inquiring Educator [Paperback] [Feb 01, 1992] Henderson, James G.