The remainder of chapter one

2 “Untimely” concepts
Concept of curriculum as conversation.
The point of education is not only to prepare students for success in college classrooms, but to enter and be a functional part of society.

“The school curriculum communicates what we choose to remember about our past, what we believe about the present, and what he hope for the future.” Page 20


“Curriculum theory aspires to understand the overall educational significance of the curriculum, focusing especially upon interdisciplinary themes-such as gender or multiculturalism or the ecological crisis-as well as the relations among the curriculum, the individual, society, and history.” Pg 21.

Now this is very important. The role of minorities, African Americans, women, and minorities has been pushed to the side. The “white male” is who the system was designed for, and modifications to both the curriculum and society must be made. (The book – I’m not expressing an opinion)

3. Too Little Intellect in Matters of the Soul”: on the education of teachers
Curriculum theorists would like teachers to focus on independent thinking, seslf-reflexivity, and interdisciplinary teaching.
Now – as educators we are skeptical of the business metaphor, but what metaphor should we use? Biograpahies are too fictionalized – It is the autobiography that is an important part of social analysis. “Curriculum theory is a form of autobiographical and theoretical truth telling that articulateds the educational experience of teachers and students as lived.”

4 The school as a business
Most American schools are still modeled after the assembly-line factory. If we hold this to be tall, then where does that leave the educator/ teacher? As h “S0cial engineer” where we manage learning. Standards anon of the teaching model then reduces the teachers role further.
The plus side to the corporate model is that teachers, while they have standards, can find their own unique ways of teaching to them. Team teaching, small group work and cooperative learning all are part of the corporate model. Corporate model tends to give room to teaching towards multiple Un intelligences, according to “Gardner”
Terms. Manager & coach tend to “masculine “ this model?


4. Figure of the schoolteacher. “Rejecting colonization by the hegemonic disciplines such as psychology, curriculum theory explores and constricts hybrid interdisciplinary constructions, valuing fragments from philosophy, history literature theory, the arts, and from those key interdisciplinary formations already in place women’s studies d gender studies, African. American studies, queer theory studies in popular culture, among others.’