Graham McPhail is an associate professor in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education and Social Work, the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Richard Pountney is a senior lecturer in the Sheffield Institute for Education, Sheffield Hallam University, the United Kingdom.

Leesa Wheelahan is Professor Emerita, William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership, in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.

PART 1: Theoretical Matters 1. Introduction: Knowledge and the curriculum: new perspectives from social realism 2. Bernstein's knowledge structures and the curriculum 3. The curriculum as relation between knowledge of reality and the individual's development: contributions from Antonio Gramsci and Lev Vygotsky PART 2: Curriculum Contestations 4. School music education beyond human development? Contributions from a social realist perspective 5. Decolonisation and the curriculum: Applying a social realist lens 6. Knowledge travels: the recontextualisation of socio-cultural knowledge for the academy and the school. 7. Privatising Music Knowledge: Identifying the restrictions that specialise music education PART 3: Knowledge and Teacher Education 8. Logic in the Curriculum Design Coherence Model: How the Model creates coherence 9. Practice knowledge and teacher mentoring: a realist analysis of professional development and learning 10. Why 'liberating' Education Studies from foundation disciplines cannot make it more coherent 11. Exploring the challenges of recontextualisation in the development of teachers' professional practice knowledge. PART 4: Crossing Boundaries 12. Interdisciplinary curriculum and equity 13. Crossing boundaries: Exploring the theory, practice and possibility of a 'Future 3' curriculum