Critical Curriculum Studies

Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing

By: Wayne Au

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Hardcover | 27 July 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Critical Curriculum Studies: Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to student understanding of the world around them. Here, author Wayne Au draws heavily upon critical traditions within curriculum theory, feminist theory, and teaching and learning to develop a "critical standpoint theory" for understanding how the orientation of school curriculum relates to the development of student consciousness.Using evidence from struggles over standards, high-stakes testing, textbook adoptions, and the politics of classroom practice, the work done in Critical Curriculum Studies will help educators and educational theorists better understand how the politics of knowledge, as well as social relations, are embedded within the very structure of curricular knowledge itself as part of the environmental design of classrooms. In the process, Critical Curriculum Studies also explains how such curricular structures relate to "critical consciousness" ' a concept that has been of significant debate within education.

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"Wayne Au brilliantly advances a theoretical framework for curriculum as liberation. Weaving together robust conceptions of consciousness, curriculum, learning, standpoint, and power, Au deepens how we think about curriculum, and brings into sharp focus the theoretical basis of real-life examples of counter-hegemonic multicultural curriculum." --Christine E. Sleeter, Professor Emerita, College of Professional Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay "If Wayne Au wanted to 'revitalize' curriculum studies---it worked! Articulating the complex simply, this unique and insightful contribution successfully explains the electric relationship between what we learn and what we do. This is a must read for those interested in knowledge and possibility." --William H. Watkins, Professor, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago "At a moment of crisis in the field, Critical Curriculum Studies decisively intervenes, proposing a return to a critical commitment firmly grounded in theory and yet crucially oriented to practice. Powerfully addressing fundamental questions regarding the relationship between educational knowledge and material reality, this impressive book renews the critical tradition and urgently enlivens the senses of praxis that can transform teaching and learning in the present." --Noah De Lissovoy, Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies, University of Texas at Austin

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