Introduction

Postmodern curriculum challenges the rationale used in most modern curriculum books which follow the Tylerian Rationale named after Tyler's book "Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction." Postmodernism wants to reconceptualize the field of curriculum. Traditional texts tend to ignore the Reconceptualization and new theoretical understandings of curriculum and instruction identified in the book such as issues of race, gender, hermeneutics, autobiography, critical theory, phenomenology, post structuralism, ecology, theology, and global education.

States an intended audience for this book are people in the schools who are interested in curricular philosophies such as whole language instruction, integrated language arts, interdisciplinary studies, curricular immersion ,

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