Curriculum in International Contexts

Ashwani Kumar is Associate Professor of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. He is the author of Curriculum As Meditative Inquiry (2013).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Curriculum Studies in South Africa: Colonialism, Constructivism, and Outcomes-Based Education.- Chapter 3. Curriculum Studies in Brazil: Marxism, Postmodernism, and Multiculturalism.- Chapter 4. Curriculum Studies in Mexico: Technical Rationality, Curriculum Communities, and Neoliberal Globalization.- Chapter 5. Curriculum As a Process of Conditioning in Asia: Ideology, Politics, and Religion.- Chapter 6. Indian Social Studies Curriculum in Transition: Effects of a Paradigm Shift in Curriculum Discourse.- Chapter 7. Postmodern Turn in North American Social Studies Education: Considering Identities, Contexts, and Discourses.- Chapter 8. The Menace of Neoliberal Education Reforms: Where Capitalism, Behaviorism, and Positivism Meet.