Ethics and international curriculum work : the challenges of culture and context

The widely cited, though highly contested, idea that "the world is flat" (Friedman, 2004) carries with it a call for education to provide a leveling effect across continents and cultures Students in Skokie or in Skopje, as the theory goes, are expected to experience a school curriculum tha...

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Other Authors Mason, Terrence C. (Editor), Helfenbein, Robert J. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2012]
Subjects
Curriculum planning > Moral and ethical aspects.
Educators > Professional ethics.
Democracy and education.
Education > Curricula.
Higher education, tertiary education.
Curriculum planning and development.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615056
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-846-3
Physical Description1 online resource (xxxiii, 226 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Book editors Introduction: Ethics, international curriculum work, and the practice of freedom / Robert Helfenbein and Terrence C. Mason Preface: Mutuality or Monopoly: Reflections on the Ethics of International Curriculum Work / J. Gregory Keller
  • Section I. Curriculum for democratic citizenship
  • Chapter 1. Ethics and democracy education across borders: The case of civitas international / Terrence C. Mason
  • Chapter 2. Deliberating across ethical terrain / Patricia Avery and Carolyn Pereira
  • Chapter 3. From transmission and influence to dialogue and understanding: Rooting international curriculum work in democratic ethics / Doyle Stevick
  • Chapter 4. Curriculum development collaboration between colonizer and colonized: Contradictions and possibilities for democratic education / Steven Camicia and Alfredo Bayon
  • Section II. Ethics, teaching, and teacher education
  • Chapter 5. A new set of questions: The ethics of taking space seriously in macedonia / Robert Helfenbein
  • Chapter 6. Ethics, dissensus, and traveling without moving: Using videoconferencing to facilitate dialogue between preservice teachers in two nations / Walter Gershon
  • Section III. Transnational curriculum theory and practice
  • Chapter 7. From text to pretext: An ethical turn in curriculum work / Jean-Francois Maheux, Dalene Swanson and Steven Khan
  • Chapter 8. Ethical dimensions of a global curriculum and professional development program: Reflections on a project in India / William Gaudelli
  • Chapter 9. "i saw it with my own eyes": The knowledge-construction process in international educator exchanges / Anatoli Rapoport
  • Afterword: Philosophical resources for international curriculum work / Barry Bull, Indiana University-Bloomington.

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