Curriculum Studies in Brazil: Intellectual Histories, Present Circumstances (International and Development Education)

This volume reports how curriculum studies scholars in Brazil understand their field's intellectual history, its present circumstances, and the relations among these intersecting domains with globalization. This collection, comprised of chapters focused on the intellectual histories and present circumstances of curriculum studies in Brazil, is Pinar's summary of exchanges (occurring over a two-year period) between the authors and members of an International Panel (scholars working in Finland, South Africa, the United States). From these and the essays Pinar identifies four concepts summarizing curriculum studies in Brazil: enunciation, eventfulness, the quotidian, and hybridity. The Brazilian scholars have the "last word" in this work. What becomes clear is that curriculum studies in Brazil is one of the most theoretically sophisticated and intellectually dynamic fields in the world today Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-25 Curriculum Studies in Brazil: An Overview....Pages 27-42 Everyday Life in Schools....Pages 43-53 Curriculum Disfiguration....Pages 55-69 Curriculum Research in Brazil....Pages 71-91 Curriculum as Practiced....Pages 93-114 Libraries and Identities....Pages 115-133 Curriculum as Enunciation....Pages 135-153 The Primacy of the Quotidian....Pages 155-169 The Exchanges....Pages 171-196 Curriculum Studies in Brazil: Four Concepts....Pages 197-216 Epilogue: The Final Word....Pages 217-226 Back Matter....Pages 227-239