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Over the past thirty years liberals and ultraconservatives, as well
as parents, women's groups, and racial minorities, have taken sides
in hotly contested struggles over issues of diversity in school
textbooks and classroom lessons. While the media draw attention to
the culture wars that fuel parental protests and campus debates,
academic theorists assume that political battles over curricular
ideas are key to educational transformation and profoundly affect
what is recognized as official knowledge. But whether battles over
school knowledge are couched in the sixties language of inclusion
or the nineties discourse of multiculturalism, Managing Diversity
argues that the stakes are never as high as activists hope, or
fear, they will be. By examining the conditions in which school
knowledge is selected and alternative curricular ideas are
realized, this book illuminates how cultural and political
struggles intersect with institutional processes and commercial and
professional decision-making to substantially moderate the impact
of textbook politics and curricular reforms on what is actually
taught in schools.
Over the past thirty years liberals and ultraconservatives, as well
as parents, women's groups, and racial minorities, have taken sides
in hotly contested struggles over issues of diversity in school
textbooks and classroom lessons. While the media draw attention to
the culture wars that fuel parental protests and campus debates,
academic theorists assume that political battles over curricular
ideas are key to educational transformation and profoundly affect
what is recognized as official knowledge. But whether battles over
school knowledge are couched in the sixties language of inclusion
or the nineties discourse of multiculturalism, Managing Diversity
argues that the stakes are never as high as activists hope, or
fear, they will be. By examining the conditions in which school
knowledge is selected and alternative curricular ideas are
realized, this book illuminates how cultural and political
struggles intersect with institutional processes and commercial and
professional decision-making to substantially moderate the impact
of textbook politics and curricular reforms on what is actually
taught in schools.
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