Conflicts in curriculum theory
Subtitle: challenging hegemonic epistemologies
By: João M. Paraskeva
Series: Education, politics, and public life
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780230112759
Subjects: Curricula; Critical pedagogy; Philosophy; Education; Theory of Knowledge
Description: 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.