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Brad Gobby and Rebecca Walker discuss Powers of Curriculum

Curriculum as the entirety of learners’ experience in an educational setting.

Powers of Curriculum explores education in Australia today through the notion and practices of curriculum. It broadens our conception of curriculum to include the lived experiences of learners in educational settings. It also explores historical and current forces within and beyond education that constitute curriculum, and how curriculum powerfully shapes learners and their experiences of learning. As educators are central to the enactment and experiences of curriculum, the authors aim to equip readers with critical and post-structuralist ideas, concepts and perspectives that can make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people in the early childhood, primary and secondary phases of education.

The authors encourage readers to use the book’s concepts and ideas to create learning experiences that are rich, engaging, intellectually stimulating, respectful and meaningful, from the point of view of learners.

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Dr Brad Gobby
and Dr Rebecca Walker are co-editors of Powers of Curriculum: Sociological Perspectives on Education and lecturers in the School of Education at Curtin University.

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