Radical philosophy for curriculum
1. If you embrace a Radical philosophy for curriculum, please tell us the relationship between politics and the radical curriculum tradition. What are some of the benefits that a radical tradition has brought to education? According to radicals, how is curriculum a source of oppression for students and society? Why do some radicals, for example, Paulo Freire, write a great deal about pedagogy and educational philosophy but not much about curriculum? How does faith inform Paulo Freire’s views? How did the early 1930s in the USA provide a unique opportunity for George Counts to espouse a radical curricular vision? What was controversial about Harold Rugg’s textbooks? Which of the commonplaces in the revolutionary tradition becomes most significant and why? Why is the relationship between theory and practice a problematic issue for radicals? In what way (or ways) can radical and systematic curricula are considered quite similar?
Sample Solution
It is argued that education should be aimed at change and this is methodologically done in the form of critical knowledge of the present age. Perhaps the most fundamental of the premises and practices of civic education is gaining students` support for the dominant-elite narrative of “America” and U.S. aggression against other nations. Radical education is politically engaged, leftist, and participatory. It is for the poor and powerless and for equality and difference. While education is an inherently political field and practice, and while the political struggles that radical philosophy takes up necessarily involve education, there remains much to be done at the intersection of education and radical philosophy.
