Alex Moore is Reader in Education in the School of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London, where he teaches on a variety of courses. He is chair and convenor of the New Directions for Curriculum Studies seminar group, which attracts participants from all over the UK as well as from America. His publications include three sinlge-authored books, including The Good Teacher published in 2004 by RoutledgeFalmer, plus numerous journal articles and book chapters.

• Part 1: Issues and Contexts 1. Education, Knowledge and the Role of the State - the Nationalisation of Educational Knowledge? 2. Six Curriculum Discourses: Contestation and Edification 3. The Puritan Origins of the 1988 School Curriculum in England 4. The Instrumentalisation of the Expressive in Education Part 2: Values and Learners 5. Gender, Power and Curriculum: an Inevitable Interconnection 6. Curriculum as Culture: Entitlement, Bias and the Bourdieusean Arbitrary 7. New Directions in Citizenship Education: Re-Conceptualising the Curriculum in the Context of Globalization Part 3: School Curricula in the Digital Age 8. New Ways of Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: Implications for Curriculum Studies 9. ICT and the Curriculum Canon: Responding to and Exploring ‘Alternative Knowledge’ Part 4: Foundations and Futures: Exploring the Possible 10. Understanding Curriculum as Utopian Text 11. Learning and Curriculum: Agency, Ethics and Aesthetics in an Era of Instability

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