Why Doesn't the Creed Read "Always Be Critical"? An Examination of a Liberal Curriculum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2470779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hope Longwell‐grice (University of Louisville Hospital), William J Letts (Charles Sturt University) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-213 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aeq.2001.32.2.191 |
| OpenAlex | W2167361951 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Using ethnographic data collected in a second grade classroom over the course of a school year, this paper describes the ways in which one school's discourse of liberalism is deleteriously deployed. We view the school's discipline creed as emblematic of the school's liberal curriculum, and interrogate the effects on four African American boys in the classroom when the school enacts this creed. Despite the agency that these boys obviously had, they were unable to control the ways in which they were placed at a structural disadvantage and manipulated by a system far more powerful than they were. The results were that these four boys suffered. Not only did the intended liberal curriculum fail to be translated fully into the enacted curriculum, the liberal underpinnings of this curriculum precluded teachers and students from taking any critical stance
Creed · Critical theory · Curriculum · Disadvantage · Ethnography · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Liberal education · Liberalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law
Cool pose
Contradictions of control
Race, Identity, and Representation in Education
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Blacked Out
The Special Education Paradox
Ghetto Schooling
Curriculum for Utopia
Doing Critical Ethnography
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Race and Curriculum
Teachers' Professional Knowledge Landscapes
Class, Race and Gender in American Education
Practice into Theory into Practice
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |