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Winner of an AESA Critics’ Choice Award 2023 This book offers first-person narratives of teachers’ curriculum encounters. The reflections of teachers are presented using Pinar’s Method of Currere as a tool for undertaking deep analysis of teachers’ curriculum encounters. The Method of Currere allows teachers to embody curriculum in all its forms, allowing for reflection on encounters in the formal, informal, hidden curriculum and beyond. The book aims to provide readers with a broad understanding of curriculum as the lived experience encapsulating the educational, personal, and professional life of the teacher. In this way teachers are able to trace and make sense of the development of their knowledge and make changes that lead to the continuous offering of quality education. The book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners involved in curriculum studies, teacher education/training, teaching, and general education.

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Author:   Carmel Roofe
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.279kg
ISBN:  

9783030994495

ISBN 10:   303099449
Pages:   90
Publication Date:   09 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Understanding Curriculum, Currere, and the Jamaican School                               ContextUnderstanding curriculumCurrere and its theoretical underpinningsThe Jamaican school context and the role of colonisation in CurrereThe role of teachers in education in post-colonial JamaicaThe research methodology for exploring teachers lived curriculum experiences  CHAPTER TWO:  How schools shape teachers’ CurrereAna’s Currere: There is a light at the end of the tunnelSomething to think aboutDence’s Currere: Reality trumps perceptionSomething to think aboutAngeli’s Currere: How schooling shaped my view of teachers and curriculumSomething to think about CHAPTER THREE: The affective dimension of teaching D’s Currere: Teaching as therapy—In helping others you help yourselfSomething to think aboutAin’s Currere: Teaching with compassionSomething to think aboutLaisah’s Currere: Going beyond boundaries to fulfil delayed dreamsSomething to think about CHAPTER FOUR: Currere, teacher professional development and decolonising intentionsTeacher professional development: A new perspectiveDecolonising the Curriculum in a context of sociocultural diversitiesA brief look at Miss Sherese; An example of a decolonising intentReflective questions 

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​Carmel Roofe is Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education, at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

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