Critical Curriculum Studies Education Consciousness and the Politics of Knowing

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This fully updated second edition of Critical Curriculum Studies offers a conceptual framework that bridges curriculum design with students' understanding of the world around them. In this new edition Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory critical educational studies and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social justice to argue for a transformative curriculum that challenges existing inequity in social educational and economic relations. Making use of the work of important scholars such as Freire Vygotsky Hartsock Harding and others Critical Curriculum Studies argues that we must understand the relationship between the curriculum and the types of consci…