Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Can the Modern V ew of Curriculum Be Refined by Postmodern Criticism? -- Shifting Paradigms: Implications for Curriculum Research and Practice -- The Common Unity and the Progressive Restoration of the Curriculum Field -- Supervision: Don t Discount the Value of the Modern -- Supervisory Practices: Building Constructivist Learning Community for Adults -- Collaborative Supervision: Implications for Supervision Research and Inquiry -- Introduction -- Postmodernism as a Challenge to Dominant Representations of Curriculum -- Informing Curriculum and Teaching Transformation through Postmodern Studies -- Postmodern Visions in Multicultural Education Preparation and Practice -- Complicity in Supervision: Another Postmodern Moment -- Possibilities of Postmodern Supervision -- Communicativ Action: A Postmodern Bridge for Supervision in School Organizations -- Introduction -- Modern and Postmodern Perspectives on Curriculum and -- Supervision: -- Paradigms of Curriculum and Supervision: A Practitioner s Viewpoint -- Student Empo erment through the Professional Development of Teachers -- Afterword: Closing Reflections -- Index.