For a start, I think we can do no better than to recycle this quotation from Maxine Greene, which I have often used in both my teaching and my writing.
Category Archives: Curriculum Theory
evolution=atheism=religion=unconstitutional?
August 31, 2006 – 4:24 pm
Ed Brayton on Dispatches from the Culture Wars has done a great job critiquing both the legal reasoning and the general logic and use of quotations and authorities deployed in an argument that teaching about evolution in public schools is a violation of the First Amendment.
Ed’s critique meticulously picks apart particular flaws in the logic [...]
Journey, Map, or Territory? (some observations by John Dewey)
August 22, 2006 – 12:27 am
Informed by the meaning of the Latin root currere, we understand “curriculum” as the course of human experience in which the formation of human being takes place (in which human being(s) “take(s) form,” that is, not only as individuals, but also in the formation of human institutions, practices, cultures, and societies).
But the word “curriculum” is [...]
What is curriculum? — Some Observations by Maxine Greene
August 21, 2006 – 8:45 pm
My first posts on this blog will address the threshold question: What is curriculum?
For a start, I can do no better than to recycle this quotation from Maxine Greene, which I have often used in both my teaching and my writing. I am sure that I will be referring back to Maxine’s observations in my [...]
