Curriculum Studies (in the) Now: Transformations and Possibilities

Product Details:
Author(s):
Du Preez, P and
Reddy, C
Year Published:
2025
Edition
1st Edition
Type:
Print | Soft Cover
Language:
English
About this publication
South Africa’s education system has transformed significantly over the course of three decades, with curriculum often perceived as the lever to effect change. This book takes a broader perspective through engaging curriculum transformation alongside and with particular curriculum studies theories that cut across schooling and postschooling. Curriculum Studies (in the) Now: Transformations and Possibilities brings leading South African scholars together to engage curriculum matters and curriculum studies as a field of inquiry aimed at advancing perspectives from the Global South. The book not only takes new and established researchers on a journey into curriculum studies and its transformations, but opens up possibilities for thinking and doing curriculum research and practice differently. Curriculum Studies (in the) Now: Transformations and Possibilities is an essential resource for researchers and students, new or familiar with curriculum studies as a field of inquiry. It is at once a history and a synthesis of contemporary thinking, but it leaves readers with plenty of possibilities for research and practice to navigate themselves in an ever-changing, indeterminate curriculum 
landscape.
 
Content
Introduction Petro du Preez (Stellenbosch University)
Chapter 1: Curriculum studies: Exploring an ever-changing landscape Chris Reddy (Stellenbosch 
University)
Chapter 2: The political and historical landscape for curriculum studies in South Africa Crain Soudien
(University of Johannesburg)
Chapter 3: Looking back to forge ahead: A reflective glance on curriculum reform in South Africa Shan 
Simmonds (North-West University)
Chapter 4: Curriculum leadership and management Labby Ramrathan (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Chapter 5: Curriculum development and design Geesje van den Berg (University of South Africa)
Chapter 6: Curriculum, teaching and learning Marisa Verster (North-West University)
Chapter 7: Curriculum and assessment Peter Beets & Lesley le Grange (Stellenbosch University)
Chapter 8: Curriculum and blended learning Faiq Waghid (Cape Town University of Technology)
Chapter 9: Curriculum, global change and sustainability: What stories do we tell? Heila Lotz-Sisitka & 
Eureta Rosenberg (Rhodes University)
Chapter 10: From Curriculum as “Untruth” to Curriculum as “Truth”: Towards Epistemic Equity Oscar 
Koopman (Stellenbosch University)
Chapter 11: Curriculum and pedagogy in the context of neoliberal marketisation Suriamurthee Maistry 
(University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Chapter 12: Artificial intelligence, curriculum studies and ethics Petro du Preez (Stellenbosch 
University)
Chapter 13: Ubuntu-currere: Rethinking curriculum (studies) in present times Lesley le Grange
(Stellenbosch University)
Conclusion Chris Reddy (Stellenbosch University)
Interest / Benefit to
Undergraduate BEd students; PGCEs, BEdHons, PGDip, MEd and PhD in Curriculum Studies, 
researchers and academics interested in curriculum studies