The scholarship of New Directions in Curriculum as Phenomenological Text manifests through close readings and interpretations of curriculum theorists and Continental philosophers, presented in the form of 'speculative philosophical essays,' an important form of curriculum thinking-writing all but lost to the general contemporary field of research.

Magrini claims that it may be feasible to initiate worlds in the present curriculum that stand further than the technical-empirical arrangement of social efficiency and its inclination for uniformity. Phenomenological language, and the distinctive reformulation of phenomena it implies, is thoroughly appropriate to convey the flexible, active, and changeable character of the development of our Being-in-praxis. Publication of this volume is well timed to tap into the increasing interest in curriculum. Magrini's approach is insightful and decidedly original. (George Lazaroiu, Review of Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. 15, 2016)

Autorentext

James M. Magrini is Adjunct Professor of Western Philosophy and Ethics and Senior Academic Advisor, College of DuPage, USA.

Inhalt

1. A Fundamental Theory of Curriculum/Education Grounded in Ontology NOT Epistemology: The Occluded Realm of Pre-Theoretical Living-and-Learning in Vandenberg, Dreyfus, and Kelly 2. Beyond Metaphysical Instrumentalism in Curriculum Theory: The Poietic and Painterly in Pinar's "Abstract Expressionist" Scholarship 3. The Phenomenology of Nature and the Ethos of Earthly Dwelling in Jardine and Bonnett: Ecopedagogy, Transcendence, and the Post-Humanist Integrated-Curriculum ()