Preface

Education needs to remain focused on its primary purpose of learning and instruction for students. Slattery advocates reflection and action and a renewed understanding of curriculum and instruction in the global society.

Terms emphasized are:
curriculum development, postmodernism, hermeneutics, paradigm, chaos theory, poststructuralism, critical theory.

Three sections of the book are:
1Curriculum development as a field of study in a postmodern context
2-Issues with contempory curriculum discourses in areas of hermeneutics, race, gender, culture, philosophy, politics, demoncracy, ecology, aesthtics, autobiography, and cosmology.
3-Proposal for rethinking curriculum development for the postmodern era.

Front Cover Explained: Piazza D'Italia in New Orleans is an example of the eclecticism, irony, and playfulness of postmodern architecture. While the Piazza stands in stark contrast to the linear and functional skyscrapers of Downtown Nawlins, it is also intimately integrated into the modern milieu of the financial district on Poydras Street. The building has now fallen in disrepair and was slated to be destroyed for a major building near the largest land-based casino in the Nation.