
CIRS: Curriculum Inquiry and Related Studies from Educational Research: A Searchable Bibliography of Selected Studies
Apple, Michael W., "Analyzing Determinations: Understanding and Evaluating the Production of Social Outcomes in Schools," Curriculum Inquiry, 10(Spring, 1980), 55-76.*
Annotation
Presents an analysis of ideological and practical tendencies for and against reproduction and socialization in a school and suggests how this may be used in evaluating and explaining outcomes.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline
Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Evaluative Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Hidden Curriculum