Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
About the Book Series
In this age of multimedia information overload, scholars and students may not be able to keep up with the proliferation of different topical, trendy book series in the field of curriculum theory. It will be a relief to know that one publisher offers a balanced, solid, forward-looking series devoted to significant and enduring scholarship, as opposed to a narrow range of topics or a single approach or point of view. This series is conceived as the series busy scholars and students can trust and depend on to deliver important scholarship in the various "discourses" that comprise the increasingly complex field of curriculum theory.
The range of the series is both broad (all of curriculum theory) and limited (only important, lasting scholarship) – including but not confined to historical, philosophical, critical, multicultural, feminist, comparative, international, aesthetic, and spiritual topics and approaches. Books in this series are intended for scholars and for students at the doctoral and, in some cases, master's levels.
Persons interested in submitting book proposals or in serving as reviewers for this series are invited to contact:
Professor William F. Pinar, Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia, Canada
Faculty of Education
Department of Curriculum Studies
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4
Canada
EMAIL: [email protected]
Kirsty Murray, Commissioning Editor, Education Research, Routledge
EMAIL: [email protected]
A Lived Citizenship Approach to Unification Education: The Discursive Formation of Naturalized Citizens in a Divided Korea
1st Edition
By Daeyoung Goh
August 10, 2026
In South Korea, unification education (UE) aims to help students develop values and attitudes for Korean unification, anchored in democratic principles, national community consciousness, and national security awareness. Yet within this framework, the experiences of international immigrants remain ...
A Decolonial Curriculum: Knowledge, Knowing, and Coming-to-Know
1st Edition
By David Scott, Sandra Leaton Gray, Rita Chawla-Duggan
June 05, 2026
A Decolonial Curriculum advances the claim that a decolonial and transcolonial curriculum must be grounded in a substantive account of what human beings do, have done, and might yet do. It proposes twelve fundamental domains of human life - knowing, communicating, genealogising, positioning, ...
Curriculum as Confession: The Promise of Teaching for Selfhood and Truth
1st Edition
By Christopher M. Cruz
May 22, 2026
This book offers a philosophical inquiry into the idea of curriculum as confession and considers how it can help us answer questions of justice, selfhood, and truth. It connects the field of curriculum studies and continental philosophy in order to arrive at new ways of thinking through the concept...
Interrogating Nation-Statehood and the Citizen in Curriculum Development: Comparative Historical Cases
1st Edition
By Nicole Gotling
May 22, 2026
This book dives into the histories of nation-state-building and curriculum formation to explore the ways that they intertwine, form and inform each other. This book follows the understanding that nation-states have – and still do – develop their educational institutions, curricula, and teaching ...
Postcritical Theory and Curriculum in Latin America: Policies, Bildung, and US Hegemony
1st Edition
By Silvia Morelli
May 22, 2026
This book, drawing on a range of postcritical theories including postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism, provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of curriculum in Latin America. The book underscores the relationship between curriculum, didactics, and Bildung in the...
Toward a Poor Curriculum: 50th Anniversary Edition
4th Edition
By William F. Pinar, Madeleine R. Grumet
February 11, 2026
Fifty years since the publication of Toward a Poor Curriculum, William F. Pinar and Madeleine R. Grumet reflect on the ongoing need for a poor curriculum—one stripped of distractions such as technology to allow for the reflection and self-questioning at the heart of the book’s central methodology ...
Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in African and Euro-Asian Contexts: Towards More Balanced Curricular Representations and Classroom Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Ehaab Abdou, Theodore Zervas
December 26, 2025
This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisdom traditions. With a focus on representations and ...
Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in the Americas: Towards More Balanced and Inclusive Curricular Representations and Classroom Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Ehaab Abdou, Theodore Zervas
December 26, 2025
This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisdom traditions. With a focus on representations and ...
Curriculum Fragments: A Currere Journey through Life Processes
1st Edition
By Thomas S. Poetter
November 27, 2025
This book builds upon Louise Berman’s late 20th-century framing of life processes to inform school curriculum, by proposing a new curriculum project that extends and reframes Berman in and beyond schooling. Using the well-established curriculum theorizing method, currere, the author focuses on ...
A Curriculum of Courage, Conviction, Resolve: The Subjective Necessity of Nonviolence
1st Edition
By William F. Pinar
November 11, 2025
The world is periodically consumed by violence, in recent years by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ October 7th terrorism in Israel, and by the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by Israelis in response. In response to this world-historical situation, this book attempts a curriculum studies ...
Colonising and Decolonising: Concepts, Learnings, and Praxes
1st Edition
By David Scott, Sandra Leaton Gray, Rita Chawla-Duggan
November 11, 2025
Colonising and Decolonising argues for a decolonised and ethicised curriculum. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach, it draws upon the fields of history, sociology, education, anthropology, philosophy, indigenous studies, and more, to allow a nuanced and multifaceted exploration of the subject...
Racism in the Enacted Curriculum: Agentic Ideas and the Spaces Between
1st Edition
By Alexander Pratt
November 10, 2025
Racism in the Enacted Curriculum chronicles the work of experienced and skilled antiracist educators to explore why even the best-intentioned curricula for resisting racism often fall short. Featuring case studies from different educational contexts across the United States, as well as the ...