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Curriculum as a Discourse: Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Revive Curriculum Reconceptualists' Thought
Journal of Curriculum and Teaching
  • Majed Harb, Zayed University
Document Type
Article
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).

Publisher
Sciedu Press
Keywords
  • Curriculum as a discourse,
  • Reconceptualists,
  • Critical discourse analysis
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
No
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
https://doi.org/10.5430/jct.v6n1p58
Citation Information
Majed Harb. "Curriculum as a Discourse: Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Revive Curriculum Reconceptualists' Thought" Journal of Curriculum and Teaching Vol. 6 Iss. 1 (2017) p. 58 - 64 ISSN: <p><a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/1927-2677" target="_blank">1927-2677</a></p>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/38135/4/