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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCurriculum Work as a Public Moral Enterprise draws readers into a 'complicated conversation' about curriculum theory. Nine of the book's eleven chapters offer powerful examples of the learning that takes place when university-based professors and K-12 practitioners cross borders between university and school settings, blur distinctions between theory and practice, and then come together to write about learning. * Harvard Educational Review *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Curriculum Worker as Public Moral Intellectual Chapter 3 Blurring the Borderlands: Imagining New Relationships Chapter 4 "Show Me the Money": Collaboration and a New Politics of School Knowledge Chapter 5 Building Hope: Implementing Unification Education in a South Korean Kindergarten Chapter 6 Educating the Artist of the Future: Facing the Challenge of Public Arts High Schools Chapter 7 Transformative Curriculum Leadership: Inspiring Democratic Inquiry Artistry Chapter 8 Exploring "Theatre as Pedagogy": Silences, Stories, and Sketches of Oppression Chapter 9 Taking Teachers to the Street Chapter 10 It Is Not Resolved Yet: When a Louisiana French Immersion Activist Engages Postcolonial, Feminist Theory (or Vice Versa) Chapter 11 A Contemporary Praxis of Collaboration Chapter 12 The Problem of the Public
