This book collects the most important essays of the late James B. Macdonald, educational theorist and cultural critic. Given the rise of importance of educational thinkers within the current move toward interdisciplinary theory dialogue. Macdonald's work stands as an important link between earlier technical discussions associated with curriculum development and contemporary moves toward viewing the central role of educational institutions and discourses in social and cultural life. Macdonald's essays - spanning from the early '60s to the early '80s - argue for the necessity of curriculum theorizing in the attempt to create a more humane schooling environment, a process that he consistently linked to larger cultural and social transformations.

The Author: James B. Macdonald was Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro before his death in 1983. He received his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The Editor: Bradley J. Macdonald is an assistant professor of Political Science at Colorado State University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to publishing articles in professional journals on contemporary political theory, he is an editor of Strategies: A Journal of Theory Culture and Politics.