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As I pondered how, why, where, and when I have become an educational researcher, my somersaulting mind stopped time-after-time on play – and then rolled on. Play for children is their most serious work. Early childhood educators from Friedrich Froebel and Maria Montessori to Erik Erikson and Fred (Mister) Rogers have shown this with great verve.
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Schubert, W. H. (2009). Love, justice, and education: John Dewey and the utopians. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing (IAP).
Schubert, W. H., Lopez Schubert, A. L., Thomas, T. P., and Carroll, W. M. (2002). Curriculum books: The first hundred years. New York: Peter Lang.
Schubert, W. H. (1997). Curriculum: Perspective, paradigm, and possibility, Second Edition. Columbus, OH: Prentice Hall. [First edition in 1986 by Macmillan: NY].
Schubert, W. H. & Ayers, W. (Eds.). (1992). Teacher lore: Learning from our own experience. White Plains, NY: Longman. [Reprinted in 1999 by Educator’s International Press ( Classics in Education Series ), Troy, NY.]
Willis, G. H. & Schubert, W. H. (Eds.). (1991). Reflections from the heart of educational inquiry: Understanding curriculum and teaching through the arts. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. [Reprinted in 2000 by Educator’s International Press ( Classics in Education Series ), Troy, NY.]
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Schubert, W. H. (2013). Multiple curricula in higher education. In J. DeVitis (Ed.), Contemporary colleges and universities: A reader (pp. 185–202), New York: Peter Lang.
Schubert, W. H. (2010). Journeys of expansion and synopsis: Tensions in books that shaped curriculum inquiry, 1968-present. Curriculum Inquiry, 40 (1), 17–94.
Schubert, W. H. (2010). Outside curriculum and public pedagogy. In J. A. Sandlin, B. D. Schultz, & J. Burdick (Eds.), Handbook of public pedagogy: Education and learning beyond schooling (pp. 10–19). New York: Routledge.
Schubert, W. H. (2009–2010). Language, legacy, and love in curriculum. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 12 (1&2), 1–23.
Schubert, W. H. (2009). What’s worthwhile? Playing with ideas in loving company. In Waks, L. & Short, E. C. Leaders in curriculum studies: Intellectual self - portraits (pp. 165–177) Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei: Sense.
Schubert, W. H. (2003). The curriculum-curriculum: Experiences in teaching curriculum. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 5 (1), 9–22.
Schubert, W.H. (1996). The longevity of a good mentor: J. Harlan Shores. In C. Kridel, R. V. Bullough, Jr., & P. Shaker (Eds.), Teachers and mentors (pp. 185–194). Hamden, CT: Garland.
Schubert, W. H. (1995). Toward lives worth living and sharing: Historical perspective on curriculum coherence. In J. A. Beane (Ed.), Toward a coherent curriculum. ASCD Yearbook (pp. 146–157). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Schubert, W. H. (1994). Toward lives worth sharing: A basis for integrating curriculum. Educational Horizons, 73 (1), 25–30.
Schubert, W. H. & Schubert, A. L. (1989). Curriculum inquiry: Alternative paradigms. In T. Husen & N. Postlethwaite (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of education (pp. 222–227), Supplementary volume one, Oxford: Pergamon.
Tyler, R. W., Schubert, W.H., & Schubert, A. L. (1986). A dialogue with Ralph W. Tyler. Journal of Thought, 21 (1), 91–118 .
Schubert, W. H. (1980). Recalibrating educational research: Toward a focus on practice. Educational Researcher, 9 (1), 17–24, 31.
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Schubert, W.H. (2014). Play: A Basis for Becoming an Educational Researcher. In: Ibarrola, M.d., Phillips, D.C. (eds) Leaders in Educational Research. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-764-3_11
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