Understanding Curriculum as Phenomenological and Deconstructed Text

Download or read book Understanding Curriculum as Phenomenological and Deconstructed Text written by William F. Pinar and published by Educator's International Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of curriculum as phenomenological and deconstructed texts present the multivocality, multiperspectivity and "lived' aspects of textbooks and of classrooms. Such studies resemble imaginative fiction more than the reviews of the journalist/art critic or the numbers of the quantitative researcher. Such studies will not function as evaluations, of course, or pretend to be the "truth" in some final, contextless sense. However, in the project to understand the curriculum, phenomenology and post-structuralism play interesting, important, and controversial roles. This collection of essays composed by leading phenomenolgical and post-structuralist scholars portrays these roles. -- page 7.