Synopses & Reviews
Following chapters focused on the intellectual histories and present circumstances of curriculum studies in Mexico is Pinars summary of exchanges (occurring over a two-year period) between the authors of these essays and members of an International Panel (scholars working in Brazil and China). From these and the essays, Pinar identifies the concepts and practices summarizing curriculum studies in Mexico. The Mexican scholars have the “last word.” What becomes clear is that the cause of curriculum is in Mexico “a great cause,” as it incorporates the socialist traditions and historic aspirations of the nation, now (in 2010) celebrating its 200th anniversary.
Synopsis
Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.S., this volume reports how curriculum studies scholars in Mexico understand their field’s intellectual history, its present circumstances, and the relations among these intersecting domains with globalization.
About the Author
William F. Pinar teaches curriculum theory at the University of British Columbia, where he holds a Canada Research Chair and directs the Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies. He is the author of What Is Curriculum Theory? (2004); Race, Religion and a Curriculum of Reparation (2006); and The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education: Passionate Lives in Public Service (2009).
Table of Contents
Introduction--William F. Pinar * Curriculum Studies in Mexico: An Overview--Ashwani Kumar * Footprints and Marks on the Intellectual History of Curriculum Studies in Mexico: Looking toward the Second Decade of the XXI Century--Alicia de Alba * Curriculum Studies in Mexico: Current Circumstances--Frida Díaz Barriga Arceo * Curriculum Studies in Mexico: Origins, Evolution and Current Tendencies--Ángel Díaz-Barriga * Curriculum Studies in Mexico: Key Scholars--Alfredo Furlan * The Institutionalization of Curriculum Studies in Mexico: Understanding Acculturation, Hybridity, Cosmopolitanism in Ibero-America--José-María García Garduño * Revisiting Curriculum Studies in Mexico--Raquel Glazman-Nowalski * Curricular Aspects of Professional Training in Mexico at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century--Maria Concepción Barrón Tirado * Curriculum Studies in Mexico: The Exchanges, the Concepts, the Practices--William F. Pinar * Epilogue: The Final Word