This book is&nbsp;a&nbsp;critical appreciation of the work of&nbsp;sixteen leading curriculum theorists,&nbsp;taking account of the writings of&nbsp;a balance of established thinkers and&nbsp;curriculum analysts from the fields of education, philosophy, sociology and psychology. Together these commentators offer a broad perspective with views from the UK, the US and Europe, and from a range of political&nbsp;stances ranging from radical conservatism through liberalism to socialism and libertarianism.&nbsp;<BR>The theorists include major names such as&nbsp;Lev Vygotsky, Jerome Bruner, Maxine Greene, Basil Bernstein, Micheal Foucault,&nbsp;Elliott Eisner, John White, Michael Apple and more. Ideal for students on&nbsp;all teacher training courses&nbsp;looking for an introduction to some of the key educational thinkers of our time, this key text&nbsp;can also be used as a companion volume to the Routledge four-volume set on curriculum theory.