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" What is curriculum theory? / "
William F. Pinar
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BL
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701861
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b524050
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Pinar, William F
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| Title & Author
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What is curriculum theory? /\ William F. Pinar
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| Publication Statement
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Mahwah, N.J. :: L. Erlbaum Associates,, 2004
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Studies in curriculum theory
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xiv, 301 pages ;; 24 cm
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0805848274
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: 0805848282
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: 9780805848274
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: 9780805848281
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and indexes
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| Contents
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The nightmare that is the present -- The regressive moment: the past in the present -- The progressive moment: the future in the present -- The analytic moment: anti-intellectualism and complicated conversation -- The synthetical moment: self-mobilization and social reconstruction
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This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to become "educated." Curriculum theory is presented as the interdisciplinary study of educational experience. The central concept of curriculum studies as a "complicated conversation" is explored. Within this framework, Pinar offers a compelling interpretation of contemporary "school reform" policies and practices, and an explication of curriculum theory's power to bring forth understanding, resistance, and change. His argument is this: Public education today is dominated by a conservative agenda based on a business model of education focused on the "bottom line" (test scores). The origins of this agenda go back to the 1950s, when gendered anxieties over the Cold War and racialized anxieties over school desegregation coded public education (not for the first time) as "feminized" and "black." The nature of many politicians' and some parents' criticisms of public education is intelligible only as a recoding of these gendered and racialized anxieties, deferred and di
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Education-- Curricula-- United States
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Education-- Political aspects-- United States
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Eğitim-- Öğretim-- ABD
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Eğitim-- Siyasi açıdan-- ABD
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375/.0001
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LB1570.P552 2004
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