“A whitewashed curriculum? The construction of race in contemporary PE curriculum policy” by Fiona Dowling and Anne Flintoff is an article from 2018 that explains their views on curriculum while also stating all of the disadvantages for non-white students in the curriculum. Dowling and Flitnoff view curriculum as a process. They state that they acknowledge […]
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The Ralph W. Tyler Rationale of Curriculum
Ralph W. Tyler’s rationale for the curriculum is very processed based. There are multiple steps to his rationale. The first question is “what educational purposes should the school seek to attain?”. Then we ask “what educational experiences can be provided that are likely to attain these purposes?”. The third question is then “how can these […]
Being Critical of Common Sense
Kumashiro defines “common sense” in many different ways throughout this text but the most basic and applicable definition to any scenario we encounter would be “what everyone should know” (Kumashiro, 2009, p.XXIX). It is evident from this text though that every place, culture, religion, race, or many more, all have different versions of what common […]