Penn State

Consortium forSocial Movements and Education
Research and Practice

Curriculum in Conflict: Social Visions, Educational Agendas, and Progressive School Reform

Curriculum in Conflict: Social Visions, Educational Agendas, and Progressive School Reform

Landon Beyer, Daniel Patrick Liston
1996
1996

Abstract

The authors analyse the disparate views put forward in debates concerning both public school and university curricula, multiculturalism, the canon, and the aims of education. They also address the educational proposals and social, political, cultural and economic perspectives advanced by members of the new right, modern liberals, radicals and postmodernists. The book ends with innovative perspectives on social and educational reform, a progressive orientation that provides an agenda for significant change.

Abstract

The authors analyse the disparate views put forward in debates concerning both public school and university curricula, multiculturalism, the canon, and the aims of education. They also address the educational proposals and social, political, cultural and economic perspectives advanced by members of the new right, modern liberals, radicals and postmodernists. The book ends with innovative perspectives on social and educational reform, a progressive orientation that provides an agenda for significant change.

Social Movements

Conservative Ideas, School Reform Movements

Keywords

Class, Curriculum, Gender, North America, Policy, Public Schooling, Race

Theme

Social Movements Within; Through; and for Public Education