Curriculum in conflict : social visions, educational agendas, and progressive school reform

Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee. The construction and reconstruction of public school and college curricula cannot be understood without an understanding of how they are intimately tied to larger social currents and cross-currents. This book attempts to provide a coherent yet inconclusive synthesis of the progressive tradition that challenges both the curricular status quo and the recent attempts at a conservative restoration. Chapter 1 presents an overview of the field of curriculum studies, examining the central epistemological assumptions and the overriding values that have governed past curriculum debates between the conservative and progressive traditions. The second chapter examines the educational agenda of the new right and the philosophical and normative assumptions that undergird it, with a focus on moral and multicultural education and classical liberal conceptions of the individual, market economics, moral deliberation, and the state. Chapter 3 outlines more progressive educational agendas, particularly those related to revised understandings of democracy and social justice, and their relationship to an altered form of modern liberal consciousness. The fourth chapter focuses on educational critiques motivated by neo-Marxist, feminist, and racial/ethnic scholarship. Central to the radical analysis is an examination of structures of domination in schools and the society at large. Chapter 5 highlights the central tenets of postmodern analyses and points out difficult paradoxes. The sixth chapter suggests alternative ways to conceptualize the nature of freedom, character, and community. It also offers alternative ways to think about work in the United States. Chapter 7 suggests strategies for the progressive renewal of schools and universities, focusing on curriculum debates and issues. An index is included. (Contains 322 references.) (LMI) The Authors Analyse The Disparate Views Put Forward In Debates Concerning Both Public School And University Curricula, Multiculturalism, The Canon, And The Aims Of Education. They Also Address The Educational Proposals And Social, Political, Cultural And Economic Perspectives Advanced By Members Of The New Right, Modern Liberals, Radicals And Postmodernists. The Book Ends With Innovative Perspectives On Social And Educational Reform, A Progressive Orientation That Provides An Agenda For Significant Change. 1. The Historical Legacy -- Early Educational Patterns -- The Contexts Of Modern Curriculum Concerns -- The Birth Of Curriculum Studies -- The Curriculum Field In Maturity -- 2. The New Right: Individualism, Free Markets, And Character -- Elements Of A Perceived Crisis And A Preferred Solution -- The New Right's Call To Arms -- Classical Liberal Theory And Society -- Individualism And Liberty -- Moral Judgment -- The Role Of The State -- Conclusion: The New Right And Social/educational Practice -- 3. Modern Liberalism And The Welfare State -- A Critique Of Classical Liberal Theory And Society -- Creating The Welfare State -- Education And Social Democracy -- 4. Dominating Dynamics: Radical Critiques Of Class, Gender, And Race -- Class, Gender, And Race -- Feminist Analyses: Gender, Patriarchy, And Schools -- Racism, White Supremacy, And Education -- 5. Postmodernism -- Postmodern Analysis -- Some Paradoxes Of Postmodern Analysis -- Postmodernism And Moral Actions -- 6. Our Social And Democratic Vision: Toward A New Progressivism -- A Social Vision -- Democratic Values And Practices -- 7. One Progressive Agenda -- The Broad Contours -- Curriculum Planning -- A Progressive Vision. Landon E. Beyer, Daniel P. Liston. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 221-233) And Index. The authors of this text analyse the disparate views put forward in debates concerning both public school and university curricula, mulitculturalism, the canon, and the aims of education. The book ends with innovative perspectives on social and educational reform.