Title: Curriculum in conflict : social visions, educational agendas, and progressive school reform /
Authors: Beyer, Landon E., 1949-; Liston, Daniel Patrick.
Publisher: Teachers College Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Education Curricula United States; Curriculum planning Social aspects United States.; Postmodernism and education United States.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.