Four essays of introduction -- Curriculum and teaching face globalization / David Geoffrey Smith -- Thinking globally in environmental education : implications for internationalizing curriculum inquiry / Noel Gough -- The triumph of multiplicity and the carnival of difference : curriculum dilemmas in the age of postcolonialism and globalization / Claudia Matus and Cameron McCarthy -- A history of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction (WCCI) / Norman V. Overly -- Thirty-four essays on curriculum studies in 28 nations -- Curriculum studies in Argentina : documenting the constitution of a field / Silvina Feeney and Flavia Terigi -- The development of curriculum thought in Argentina / Mariano Palamidessi and Daniel Feldman -- Curriculum inquiry in Australia : toward a local geneaology of the curriculum field / Bill Green -- The decolonization of curriculum in Botswana / Sid N. Pandey and Fazlur R. Moorad -- The curriculum field in Brazil : emergence and consolidation / Antonio Flavio Barbosa Moreira -- The curriculum field in Brazil in the 1990s / Alice Casimiro Lopes and Elizabeth Fernandes de Macedo -- In search of a vision : how Brazil is struggling to envision citizenship for its public schools / Silvia Elizabeth Moraes -- "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances" : a view of contemporary curriculum discourses in Canada / Cynthia Chambers -- Curriculum studies in China : retrospect and prospect / Hua Zhang and Qiquan Zhong -- In search of a quality curriculum in Hong Kong / Edmond Hau-Fai Law -- Learning for the future in Estonia : content revisited and reconceptualized / Urve Laanemets -- Postmodern paradoxes in Finland : the confinements of rationality in curriculum studies / Tero Autio -- Understanding curriculum in France : a multifaceted approach to thinking education / Denise Egea-Kuehne -- The landscape of curriculum inquiry in the republic of Ireland / Kevin Williams and Gerry McNamara -- Curriculum planning at the threshold of the third millennium : the Israeli case / Naama Sabar and Yehoshua Mathias -- Curriculum reform in Italy in a European perspective / M. Vicentini -- Japan's struggle for the formation of modern elementary school curriculum : westernization and hiding cultural dualism in the late 19th century / Miho Hashimoto -- Present state of curriculum studies in Japan / Tadahiko Abiko -- Japanese educational reform for the 21st century : the impact of the new course of study toward the postmodern era in Japan / Shigeru Asanuma -- Curriculum research : evolution and outlook in Mexico / Angel Diaz Barriga -- Main trends of curriculum research in Mexico / Frida Diaz Barriga -- What education scholars write about curriculum in Namibia and Zimbabwe / Jonathan D. Jansen -- Curriculum theory in the Netherlands / Willem Wardekker, Monique Volman, and Jan Terwel -- Contemporary curriculum research in New Zealand / Peter Roberts -- Curriculum theory and research in Norway : traditions, trends, and challenges / Bjorg B. Gundem, Berit Karseth, and Kirsten Sivesind -- Back to Itacka : curriculum studies in Romania / Nicolae Sacalis -- Politics and theories in the history of curricular reform in South Korea / Yonghwan Lee -- In Southeast Asia : Phillipines, Malaysia, and Thailand : conjunctions and collisions in the global cultural economy / F.D. Rivera -- Frame factors, structures, and meaning making : shifting foci of curriculum research in Sweden / Ulla Johansson -- Curriculum study in Taiwan : retrospect and prospect / Jeng-Jye Hwang and Chia-Yu Chang -- Curriculum development in Turkey / F. Dilek Gozutok -- Subject, not subjects : curriculum pathways, pedagogies and practices in the United Kingdom / David Hamilton and Gaby Weiner -- A random harvest : a multiplicity of studies in American curriculum history research / Craig Kridel and Vicky Newman -- Hermeneutics, subjectivity, and aesthetics : internationalizing the interpretive process in U.S. curriculum research / Patrick Slattery.
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This international handbook of curriculum research reports on scholarly developments and school curriculum development initiatives worldwide. Thirty-six essays on 29 nations, plus four essays of introduction, provide a panoramic and in-depth view of the state of curriculum studies globally.