Title

McNeil, Linda M., "Contradictions of Control, Part 3: Contradictions of Reform," Phi Delta Kappan, 69(March, 1988), 478-485.

Authors

Linda M. McNeil

Annotation

Shows how in two cases of top-down reform they lead to inauthentic curriculum and mechanical teaching processes and to results that contradict the intentions of the reforms.

Broad Topical Focus

Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Change

Source Discipline

Curriculum

Mode of Inquiry in the Study

Ethnographic Inquiry, Critical Inquiry

Type of Study

Single Study

Narrow Topic

Core Mandates, Local Control of Schooling

 

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