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Curriculum In Conflict:
Social Visions, Educational Agendas, and Progressive School Reform
Landon E. Beyer and Daniel P. Liston
Practitioner Inquiry Series
Pub Date: 1996, 264 pages
Paperback: $21.95, ISBN: 0807735280
 
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In Curriculum in Conflict, Landon E. Beyer and Daniel P. Liston analyze the disparate views put forward in debates concerning both public school and university curricula, multiculturalism, the canon, and the aims of education. The authors address the educational proposals as well as the social, political, cultural, and economic perspectives that have been advanced by members of the new right, modern liberals, radicals, and postmodernists. The book ends with a set of progressive perspectives on social and educational reform, a progressive orientation that provides an agenda for significant change.
This ambitious work includes the following chapters: The Historical Legacy • The New Right: Individualism, Free Markets, and Character • Modern Liberalism and the Welfare State • Dominating Dynamics: Radical Critiques of Class, Gender, and Race • Postmodernism • Our Social and Democratic Vision: Toward a New Progressivism • One Progressive Agenda
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