Explicitly linking curriculum inquiry to English education via recurring themes of representation, democracy and knowledge, this book is a call for both researchers and practitioners to engage with curriculum, explicitly and deliberatively, as both a concept and a question.

Bill Green is Emeritus Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Introduction: Engaging Curriculum? Section I 1. Rethinking the Representation Problem in Curriculum Inquiry 2. Curriculum, Representation, Democracy 3. Addressing the Curriculum Problem in Doctoral Education 4. From Communication Studies to Curriculum Inquiry? 5. Curriculum AND Pedagogy? A Complicated Conversation 6. Teaching for Difference: Learning Theory and Post-Critical Pedagogy Section II 7. Still Insisting on the Letter? Literacy Studies and Curriculum Inquiry 8. Reviving Rhetoric? English Teaching, the Literacy Challenge, and Curriculum Change 9. Curriculum, 'English' and Cultural Studies; or, Changing the Scene of English Teaching 10. A Question of Value: English Teaching, Cultural Studies, Curriculum Inquiry 11. English Teaching, the Knowledge Question and the National Curriculum 12. English in the Australian Curriculum: An 'Exceptional' Subject? Afterword: English Teaching as Curriculum Inquiry