Conflicts in Curriculum Theory: Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies (Education, Politics and Public Life)

This book challenges educators to be agents of change, to take history into their own hands, and to make social justice central to the educational endeavor. Paraskeva embraces a pedagogy of hope championed by Paulo Freire where people become conscious of their capacity to intervene in the world to make it less discriminatory and more humane. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Introduction....Pages 1-7 The Nature of Conflict....Pages 9-22 The Struggle Over Knowledge Control....Pages 23-42 A Simplistic Tool for a Lethal Phenomenon....Pages 43-61 The Emergence of Ralph Tyler....Pages 63-75 The Prosser Resolution....Pages 77-94 The Struggle for Curriculum Relevance....Pages 95-115 The Emergence and Vitality of a Specific Critical Curriculum River....Pages 117-145 Challenging Epistemicides: Toward an Itinerant Curriculum Theory....Pages 147-188 Back Matter....Pages 189-253 This book challenges educators to be agents of change, to take history into their own hands, and to make social justice central to the educational endeavor. As a scholar immersed in a language of possibility, Paraskeva unabashedly embraces a pedagogy of hope championed by Paulo Freire where men and women of the world become conscious of their capacity as agents of history who can intervene in the world so as to make it less discriminatory and more humane.