Understanding Curriculum As Racial Text: Representations of Identity and Difference in Educ - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0791416623 ISBN 13: 9780791416624

Casa editrice: State University of New York Press, 1993

Riassunto

This book examines issues of identity and difference, both theoretically and as represented in curriculum materials. Here debates over the cultural character of the curriculum are characterized as debates over the American national identity. The editors argue that historically, cultural conservatives have failed to appreciate that the United States is, in a fundamental and central way, an African and African-American place. European Americans are, in a cultural sense, also black, and the failure to teach sequestered suburban (usually Caucasian) students about their (cultural) African and African-American heritage perpetuates their delusion regarding their deeper identities. A curriculum which reflects the non-synchronous identity of Americans is sketched in the last section. Such a curriculum involves not only the inclusion of African and African-American content, but interracial intellectual marriage as well.

Contributors to this book include Peter Taubman, Susan Edgerton, Beverly Gordon, Alma Young, Wendy Luttrell, Cameron McCarthy, Patricia Collins, Roger Collins, Brenda Hatfield, Marianne H. Whatley, and Joe L. Kincheloe.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Louis A. Castenell, Jr. is Dean of the College of Education at the University of Cincinnati. William F. Pinar is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at Louisiana State University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791416623
• ISBN 13: 9780791416624
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 334
• Redattore: Castenell Jr. Louis A.
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