Title
Giroux, Henry A., "Dialectics and the Development of Curriculum Theory," Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2(Summer, 1980), 27-36. Reprinted pp. 113-126 in his Ideology, Culture, and the Process of Schooling . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1981.
Annotation
Describes the role of curriculum theory as a vehicle for critique and vision and the use of the concept of dialectic in renewing its power; discusses totality, mediation, appropriation, and transcendence as categories of dialectic.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research
Source Discipline
Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Critical Inquiry
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum Deliberation
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