Bridging Educational Leadership, Curriculum Theory and Didaktik: Non-affirmative Theory of Education

Forewords by William. F. Pinar, Carolyn Shields, Tomas Englund.- Part I: Re-Theorizing the Field - Foundations to a Research Program .- 1. Non-Affirmative Theory of Education Bridging Curriculum Studies, Didaktik and Educational Leadership; Michael Uljens and Rose Ylimaki.- Part II: Transnational Developments Challenging Leadership and Curriculum Work .- 2. Neo-Liberal Governance leads Education and Educational Leadership Astray; Leif Moos.- 3. Lead Learner or Head Teacher? Exploring Connections among Curriculum, Leadership and Evolution in an "Age of Measurement"; Gert Biesta.- 4. Against the Epistemicide; Joao Paraskeva.- Part III: Curriculum Theory and Didaktik in US and Europe .- 5. The Didaktik/Curriculum Dialogue - what did we learn?; Walter Doyle.- 6. School Leadership as Gap Management - Curriculum Traditions, Changing Evaluation Parameters, and School Leadership Pathways; Mariella Knapp and Stefan Hopmann.- 7. Curriculum Theory in Contestation? American Curriculum, European Didaktik, and Chinese Wisdom Traditions as Hybrid Platforms for Educational Leadership; Tero Autio.- Part IV: Leadership, Didaktik and Curriculum Studies .- 8. Forging the Needed Dialogue Between Educational Leadership and Curriculum Inqury: Placing Social Justice, Democracy and Multicultural Perspective into Practice; Ira Bogotch, Dilys Schoorman and Daniel Reyes-Guerra.- 9. School Leadership and Curriculum - German Perspectives; Stephan Huber, Pierre Tulowitzki and Uwe Hameyer.- 10. Teachers and Administrators as Lead Professionals for democratic Ethics: From Course Design to Collaborative Journeys of Becoming; Daniel J. Castner, Rosemary Gornik, James G. Henderson and Wendy L. Samford.- 11. Codification of present Swedish Curriculum Processes - Linking Educational Activities Over Time and Space; Eva Forsberg, Elisabet Nihlfors, Daniel Pettersson & Pia Skott.- 12. Rethinking Authority in Educational Leadership; William F. Pinar.- Part V: Discursive and Multi-Level Perspectives .- 13. National Curriculum Development as Educational Leadership - A Discursive and Non-Affirmative Approach; Michael Uljens and Helena Rajakaltio.- 14. Curriculum and Leadership in Transnational Reform Policy: A Discursive-Institutionalist Approach; Kirsten Sivesind and Ninni Wahlström.- 15. Curriculum theory, Didaktik, and Educational Leadership: Reflections on the Foundations of the Research Program; Rose Ylimaki and Michael Uljens.