How Joe Schwab Thinks: A Review of The Practical 1 after 40 Years

"How Joe Schwab Thinks: A Review of The Practical 1 after 40 Years" is an example of Biblio-Revenance, which invites a reviewer to return to previously a published work and reexamine its ideas in relation to the passing of time and the "differing sense of self." Tom Roby puts Schwab's influential essay, "The Practical, a Language for Curriculum" into its historical context, its ongoing impact, and its status after nearly half a century (1967-2007). Roby, a student and colleague of Schwab's, takes a second look at his own dissertation work when the first Practical article came out, as well as at the end of the sequence when he co-authored the Practicals 5 & 6. The changing understanding of the role of theory over the review period from Schwab's attack on its over reliance in education to its more vague usage today is one of the revealing comparisons

The Cosmopolitical: From the Deconstructive Point of View

This editorial introduction discusses the notion of the cosmopolitical from the deconstructive point of view

Translating Water

This paper is an exploration of the nature of translation and its pedagogical and ecological import. While translation necessarily betrays the original by being necessarily unfaithful to it, it also betrays the original in the sense of showing us something of it

JCT Today

Pinar links the circumstances of JCT today with those surrounding its founding 30 years ago. Then the field's paradigm shift constituted its internal crisis, a shift precipitated by the 1960s National Curriculum Reform movement. Those circumstances called for a journal committed to the reconceptualization of curriculum studies. Today the field faces another set of difficult circumstances, intensified by the Bush Administration's effort to silence dissent by legislating evidence-based research. Coupled with internal tensions, specifically those associated with identity politics and social ameliorism, present circumstances conspire to produce a presentistic and fragmenting field. Pinar recommends that once again JCT look to the future. This time, however, the route to the future lies in the past