In Plato's Shadow: Curriculum Differentiation and the Comprehensive American High School

Autor/inn/en	Rice, Suzanne; Smilie, Kipton D.
Titel	In Plato's Shadow: Curriculum Differentiation and the Comprehensive American High School
Quelle	In: Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 50 (2014) 3, S.231-245 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1946
DOI	10.1080/00131946.2014.907165
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Ideology; Secondary School Curriculum; Curriculum Development; Student Characteristics; Student Needs; Ability Grouping; Track System (Education); Educational Philosophy; Educational History; Social Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Ideologie; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Homogene Gruppierung; Niveaugruppierung; Streaming; Leistungsgruppe; Leistungsdifferenzierung; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Sozialer Einfluss
Abstract	This article examines the emergence and persistence of curriculum differentiation in the comprehensive high school. We argue that curriculum differentiation has roots in Plato's Republic, where it is proposed that education (and later work, especially the work of ruling) should be distributed on the basis of ability. The concept of "ideology" is used here to help explain why the practice of curriculum differentiation has remained a defining--and largely unchallenged--characteristic of the comprehensive high school. The persistence of curriculum differentiation matters because it is a means by which different groups of students are given access to different kinds of knowledge. Not all knowledge is equally valued, and access to certain kinds of this educational good has implications for young persons' well-being that extend well beyond their formal schooling. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10