Walker, Decker F., "Back to the Future: The New Conservatism in Education," Educational Researcher, 19(April, 1990), 35-38.
Annotation
Reviews three 1987 books (Finn & Ravitch, Hirsch, Bloom) and notes their ideological perspectives and their non-research bases.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline
Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Content Selection and Organization, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
