The syllabus as curriculum : a reconceptualist approach /
Samuel D. Rocha.
- 1 online resource (xii, 221 pages) : illustrations.
- Routledge research in education .
- Routledge research in education. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This volume explores new directions in curriculum theory as the author engages critically with the notion of syllabus as the totalizing sum of the meaning of curriculum. Through an original reconceptualization, the author draws from a series of sources - ranging from Classical Antiquity to the present - offering a historical context for understanding curriculum as a philosophically salient concept. An original, powerful, and corrective contribution to the literature on curriculum studies, this work invites scholars from art education and those invested in curriculum theory to see their contribution in more direct and integral ways"--
Samuel D. Rocha is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.