Curriculum Visions: Second Printing (Counterpoints)

Curriculum Visions challenges the singular, guiding vision that has dominated Western educational thought for the past four centuries, from Peter Ramus to Ralph Tyler and beyond. Influenced by the spirit of John Dewey, Curriculum Visions moves beyond his ghost to see what he never saw – a playful integration of the scientific, the storied, and the spiritful. In so doing, Curriculum Visions asks each of us to develop our own curricular vision, based on the logic of reason, the personality and culture of society, and the awesomeness and mystery of creation.

«‘Curriculum Visions’ is extraordinary reading – intriguing, challenging, and thought provoking. Curriculum inquiry is carried far beyond the ghosts of American, as well as European, curriculum traditions. For a Nordic and European audience especially, curriculum scholars, teachers, and students alike, William E. Doll’s five C’s – Curriculum as Currere, Complexity, Cosmology, Conversation, and Community – offer an articulated vision of future life for curriculum.» (Bjørg Brandtzeg Gundem, University of Oslo, Norway)
«An exhilarating, many-voiced exploration of curriculum as concept and as practice, but more than that –an adventure in thinking. ‘Curriculum Visions’ is a rich and important contribution to curriculum inquiry and curriculum work, and a major addition to the burgeoning literature on curriculum reconceptualization. Featuring some of our leading writers and scholars and shaped significantly by new historical and theoretical lenses, it will certainly ‘haunt’ the next generation of the curriculum field.» (Bill Green, Charles Sturt University, Australia)
«‘Curriculum Visions’ is one of those rare texts that does what it is about. Enacting its topic, it brings the past newly into the present, exorcises ghosts, questions its assertions, permits contradictions, keeps foundations fluid, and in so doing allows for the appearance of curriculum visions both within its own pages and in the minds of readers. It will be an invaluable text for inspiriting Canadian curriculum studies.» (Antoinette Oberg, University of Victoria, Canada)
«‘Curriculum Visions’ is a collection of intellectual conversations full of seminal ideas and imaginations which provoke me to rethink my curriculum experiences and philosophical positions about the nature of human beings, the future of human society, and the destiny of human civilizations. The papers in the book are curriculum journeys of diverse talents and scholarship with immense romanticism, which will be haunting the world of curriculum studies for years to come.» (Edmond Law, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, China)