Conflicts in Curriculum Theory Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies

by Paraskeva, João M.; Macedo, Donaldo

• ISBN13: 9780230112759
• ISBN10: 0230112757
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Joo M. Paraskeva is an Associate Professor in the Center for Policy Analysis and Policy Studies at the School of Education, Public Policy, and Civic Engagement at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Table of Contents

The Nature of Conflict * The Struggle over Knowledge Control * A Simplistic Tool for a Lethal Phenomenon * The Emergence of Ralph Tyler * The Prosser Resolution * The Struggle for Curriculum Relevance * The Emergence and Vitality of a Specific Critical Curriculum River * Challenging Epistemicides: Toward an Itinerant Curriculum Theory