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Autor/in | Wheeler-Bell, Quentin |
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Titel | Standing in need of justification. Michael Apple, R.S. Peters and Jürgen Habermas. |
Quelle | In: Journal of curriculum studies, 49 (2017) 4, S. 561-578Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0022-0272; 1366-5839 |
DOI | 10.1080/00220272.2017.1279219 |
Schlagwörter | Bildungstheorie; Curriculumtheorie; Lehrplantheorie; Kritische Theorie |
Abstract | Curriculum decisions are increasingly seen as technocratic or bureaucratic problems, rather than democratic issues that must be deliberated over. As such, curriculum decisions are placed in the hands of a small minority of bureaucrats and business elites who assume the only purpose of education is to prepare children for college and/or the labour market. Within these times, it is essential to revisit classics works in order to move forward a critical theory of the curriculum. To develop a critical theory of the curriculum, I shall revisit two classic books in curriculum studies-R.S. Peters's Ethics & Education and Michael Apple's Ideology and Curriculum. I place Michael Apple and R.S. Peters in conversation with each other because both believe, albeit differently, that the curriculum 'stands in need of justification': both agree the curriculum must be publically justified through democratic deliberation. Furthermore, Apple and Peters develop different sets of tools for a critical theory of the curriculum-Apple provides tools for critique and Peters tools for the normative standards. However, both inadequately develop the normative standards for determining when the curriculum is democratically justified. These normative standards, I argue, are developed by Habermas's critical theory of discourse ethics which is capable of building upon and expanding the insights of Apple and Peters. |
Erfasst von | IPN - Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik an der Universität Kiel |
Update | 2017/4 |