Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Journal of Curriculum and Teaching
Publication Date
3-10-2017
Abstract
Curriculum reconceptualists seek to reshape the field of curriculum studies. Unlike traditional curricularists, they reprobate the technical approach of curriculum development because of its pure functional and managerial tendency. Reconceptualists look at curriculum from various philosophy-saturated perspectives. One of their claims is considering curriculum as a discourse, and the main task curricularists have to cope with is to understand this discourse. Unfortunately, reconceptualists penetrate deeply into philosophy without offering a clear practical vision that helps them transform their insights. In this paper, I argue that reconceptualists can bridge the gap through considering Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) assumptions. The idea of understanding curriculum as a discourse could be theoretically and practically detected when employing (CDA).
DOI Link
ISSN
Publisher
Sciedu Press
Volume
6
Issue
1
First Page
58
Last Page
64
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Keywords
Curriculum as a discourse, Reconceptualists, Critical discourse analysis
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Harb, Majed, "Curriculum as a Discourse: Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Revive Curriculum Reconceptualists' Thought" (2017). All Works. 1145.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/1145
Indexed in Scopus
no
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series