Download or read book The Synoptic Text Today and Other Essays written by William F. Pinar and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synoptic textbooks have played a major role in the intellectual advancement of U.S. curriculum studies. William F. Pinar argues for a new synoptic text, summarizing recent and relevant research in the academic disciplines toward the subjective and social reconstruction of the public sphere that is the school classroom. Such a reconceptualization of curriculum development enables teachers to complicate the classroom conversations they themselves will lead. Subsequent essays demonstrate the thematic and methodological forms such curriculum development might take.