Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCING CURRICULUMChapter 1: What is Curriculum?Chapter 2: Using Theory to Think Critically about EducationChapter 3: A History of Schooling and the Making of ChildrenChapter 4: Exploring and Embracing Learner Diversity through a Sociological LensChapter 5: Educators’ Philosophies: Encountering and Weaving ImagesPART II: UNPACKING CURRICULUM ISSUES Chapter 6: Neoliberalism, Education and CurriculumChapter 7: The Education System and Social Class: A Shifting RelationshipChapter 8: The Trap of Binary Thinking: Problematising Gender and Social DisadvantageChapter 9: Understanding the Techniques of Colonialism: Indigenous Educational JusticeChapter 10: Rethinking Australia’s Cultural DiversityChapter 11: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience in EducationChapter 12: Child and Youth Identity Formation: Consumerism and Popular CulturePART III: CREATING AND ENACTING CURRICULUM Chapter 13: Critically Reflective Practice: What Is It and Why Is It Needed Now?Chapter 14: The Virtual Schoolbag and Pedagogies of EngagementChapter 15: Environment as CurriculumChapter 16: Digital Technologies, Schooling and Children’s RightsChapter 17: Datafication and AssessmentChapter 18: Planning the Curriculum

About the Author

EDITORS:Brad Gobby is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Curtin University.Associate Professor Rebecca Walker teaches in the School of Education at Curtin University.CHAPTER AUTHORS:Tiffani AppsLilly BrownMadeleine DobsonBarry DownStefania GiamminutiBrad GobbyChristine GowlettSaul KarnovskyAmanda KeddieKelli McGrawGlenda McGregorJane MerewetherZsuzsa MilleiMartin MillsRichard NiescheJane PearceEva Bendix PetersenSophie RudolphGlenn C. SavageRebecca WalkerJoel Windle