ABSTRACT
This chapter is offered with a profound sense of obligation first to those to whom I am writing-students and researchers, both Canadian and international, requiring an introduction to curriculum in Canada-and second to those about whom I am writing. My obligation has been to limit the injustice I do (to the extent that is possible) to their work, ideas, texts-by way of omission, limited understanding, and the infinite fragility of language in the creative work of interpretation and translation. Therefore, to the reader, I suggest that you use this chapter as a map to follow, rather than a novel (which might give you full access to a complete and possibly fictional world), a guide as you seek out the real texts reviewed here, and in journeying through them, perhaps locate those authors who were omitted here. Having just been, it is a trip I highly recommend. To those scholars overlooked, I plead the (concrete) limitations of word length and time, and within those parameters a conscious choice to focus on those areas of curriculum to which Canada has made (in my estimation) the most significant contribution to curriculum studies internationally.
