"Critical Curriculum Studies" brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social justice to argue for a transformative curriculum that challenges existing inequity in social, educational, and economic relations. Making use of the work of important scholars such as Freire, Vygotsky, Hartsock, Harding, and others, "Critical Curriculum Studies," argues that we must understand the relationship between the curriculum and the types of consciousness we carry out into the world"-- Provided by publisher.
Critical Curriculum Studies examines both how social power is embedded in curricular knowledge and how such knowledge can be used to make progressive educational and social change.
Critical Curriculum Studies examines both how social power is embedded in curricular knowledge and how such knowledge can be used to make progressive educational and social change.