Research Handbook on Curriculum and Education

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'Education has become a battleground for binary-positions over what we should teach and how. The Research Handbook on Curriculum and Education provides an authoritative set of accounts to enable the reader to navigate and understand the rich theoretical, practical and contextual influences that inform this complex and contested landscape.' -- Clare Brooks, University of Cambridge, UK 'The Research Handbook on Curriculum and Education is an inspiring volume that profoundly combats superficial understandings of curriculum issues and the nature of knowledge. These scholars open up key avenues for deeper understandings of how the educational system can advance its core - to make knowledge accessible for new generations and to shape new generations' capacity to advance insights and enhance knowledge.' -- Bjoern Astrand, Umea University, Sweden 'The Research Handbook on Curriculum and Education assembles contributions from leading scholars whose works focus on curriculum and schooling. The contributions focus on how socio-political vectors play a role in the making, enactment, and outcomes of school curricula. The Handbook is essential reading for scholars who have an interest in studying school curricula and those involved in researching teacher education.' -- Lesley Le Grange, Stellenbosch University, South Africa 'This Handbook is a crucially important text at a time when curriculum is at the forefront of many educators' minds. It provides a powerful opportunity to revisit the core principles and theory around curriculum that underpin all that we do in schools.' -- Cat Scutt, Chartered College of Teaching, UK 'The Research Handbook on Curriculum and Education will be of use to anyone - whether a teacher, parent, educationist, or policy maker - who cares about providing the best education for our children.' -- Lawrence Goldman, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK 'The Research Handbook on Curriculum and Education is important for all History teachers. It recognises that the History curriculum must draw from the discipline so that what is taught to children and young people is the objective study of past events that are independently verifiable, empirically substantiated, and open to ongoing critique and revision as new evidence comes to light.' -- Robert Tombs, Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge, UK 'The Research Handbook on Curriculum and Education offers a significant and exhaustive inquiry into the theoretical underpinnings, methodologies, and practical applications of curriculum design and development. It not only encapsulates profound theoretical perspicacity but also provides pragmatic recommendations. Forty comprehensive chapters from international curriculum experts will assist in promoting educational quality on a worldwide canvas.' -- Ryan Zhang, Shaanxi Normal University, People's Republic of China 'Contributors to this outstanding anthology include historians, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, educators, didactitians, and literary scholars from 18 countries. The acquisition of universal, yet fallible and revisable knowledge, as the core curriculum principle is defended. Issues of design, transformation, implementation, politics, powerful knowledge, and teacher education are addressed in national contexts.' -- Michael R. Matthews, University of New South Wales, Australia