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Curriculum Inquiry

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Edited by:
Editor-in-Chief: Dennis Thiessen
Editors: Elizabeth Campbell, Heather Sykes, and Mary Kooy


ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2006: 92/100 (Education & Educational Research)
Impact Factor: 0.176


Curriculum Inquiry is dedicated to the study of educational research, development, evaluation, and theory. This leading international journal brings together influential academics and researchers from a variety of disciplines around the world to provide expert commentary and lively debate. Articles explore important ideas, issues, trends, and problems in education, and each issue also includes provocative and critically analytical editorials covering topics such as curriculum development, educational policy, and teacher education.

Special offer - a personal subscription to Curriculum Inquiry includes full online access to the electronic version of this journal, PLUS full online access to the current and back issues of British Journal of Educational Studies, British Journal of Educational Technology, and Educational Theory. This means that you will have full electronic access to four important international education journals for the price of one!

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Special offer
A personal subscription to Curriculum Inquiry includes full online access to the electronic version of this journal, PLUS full online access to the current and back issues of British Journal of Educational Studies, British Journal of Educational Technology, Educational Theory, and the Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. This means that you will have full electronic access to five important international education journals for the price of one!

TopHighlights

  • Foolish Dreams in a Fabled Land:  Living Coexistence in an Israeli Arab Middle School
    Deborah Court
  • Attending to Student Voice: The Impact of Descriptive Feedback on Learning and Teaching
    Carol Rodgers
  • Teacher Identity and Agency in School Worlds:  Beyond the All-Good/All-Bad Discourse on Accountability-Explicit Curriculum Policies
    Kris Sloan
  • Practicing Change: Curriculum Adaptation and Teacher Narrative in the Context of Mathematics Education Reform
    Corey Drake & Miriam Gamoran Sherin
  • What's to be Done With the Fox?  Inuit Teachers Inventing Musical Games for Inuit Classrooms
    Joan Russell

Book Reviews

Tara Fenwick.  "Work, Learning and Education in the Knowledge Economy: A Working Class Perspective. A Review of  Hidden knowledge: Organized labour in the information age (Livingstone & Sawchuk, 2004), Reading work: Literacies in the new workplace ( Belfiore, Defoe, Folinsbee, Hunter, & Jackson, 2004), and Voices from the margins: The stories of vocational high school students (Nagle, 2001)"   

Michael Kompf.  "Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the Seduction of Knowledge and Learning:  What Lies Ahead for Education.  An Essay Review of Technology, teaching and learning (Barrell, Ed.,  2001);  Oversold and underused: Computers in the classroom (Cuban, 2001); and A classroom of one (Maeroff, 2003)"

Karen A Krasny.  "Prophetic Voices:  Three Books to Encourage Us to Listen Beyond Historical Silence. An essay review of  Places of Learning: Media, architecture, pedagogy (Ellsworth, 2005), Ethics and the Foundations of Education: Teaching Convictions in a Postmodern World, (Slattery & Rapp, 2003), and Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution ( McLaren, 2000)."

Kelleen Toohey & June Beynon.  "Fighting structural and power inequities: Two perspectives. An Essay Review of Crossing over to Canaan: The journey of new teachers in diverse classrooms (Ladson-Billings,  2001) and Parallel practices: social justice-focused teacher education and the elementary school classroom, ( Regenspan, 2002)"

        

TopEndorsements

"One of the top general education journals. It is the finest publication in the English speaking world that focuses on curriculum planning, teaching and evaluation."
Elliot Eisner, Stanford University, USA

"One of the most lively and stimulating journals. Its dedication to exploring issues and pursuing debates, across a wide range of issues, is second to none. "
Martyn Hammersley, Open University, UK

"One of the few education journals to open up contemporary theoretical perspective on general education."
Maxine Greene, Columbia University, USA