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Myths of Social Science in Curriculum

Pages 317-328 | Published online: 30 Jan 2008

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  • Thomas S. Popkewitz , “The Problem of Politics, Craft and Community in Social Studies Curriculum ( Paper delivered at Conference on Craft, Conflict and Symbol: Their Import for Curriculum and Schooling , Tennessee Technological University , Cookeville , Tennessee , 1974 ).
  • Much of this discussion is based upon the work of W. Haggstrom , The Scientific Community ( New York : Basic Books , 1965 ); N. Storer, The Social System of Science (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966); and S. Toulmin, Human Understanding, The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972).
  • T. Kuhn , The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1970 ).
  • See M. Polyani , Personal Knowledge: Towards A Post-Critical Philosophy ( New York : Harper and Row , 1964 ).
  • In using the word “most,” I am arguing that there is a dominant educational view of inquiry which maintains the assumptions outlined here. Two counter-examples, though, to the logic identified are G. Wehlage and E. Anderson , Social Studies Curriculum in Perspective: A Conceptual Analysis ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J. : Prentice-Hall , 1972 ); and M. Clements, R. Fielder and R. Tabachnick, Socio, Study: Inquiry in Elementary Classrooms (Minneapolis, Mn.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967).
  • A. Kaplan , The Conduct of Inquiry, Methodology for Behavioral Science ( Scranton , Pa. : Chandler Publishing Company , 1964 ).
  • R. Nisbet , “Sociology as an Art Form,” Sociology on Trial , ed. M. Stein and A. Vidich ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J. : Prentice-Hall , 1963 ).
  • J. Watson , The Double Helix ( New York : Signet Books , 1968 ).
  • A. Gouldner , The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology ( New York : Basic Books , 1970 ).
  • See M. Apple , “The Hidden Curriculum and The Nature of Conflict,” Interchange 2 ( 1971 ): 27 – 40 .
  • Two different ideological stances toward power are: R. Dahl , Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City ( New Haven , Ct. : Yale University Press , 1961 ); and C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956). For a general discussion of ideology and these two works, see W. Connolly, Political Science and Ideology (New York: Atherton Press, 1967).
  • Much of this discussion is based upon the work of A. Shutz , Collected Essays Paper , vol. 1 ( Hague : M. Nijhoff , 1962 ); and P. Berger and T. Luchmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1966).
  • Shutz , Essays
  • C. Mills , “Language, Logic and Culture,” in Power, Politics and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills , ed. I. Horowitz , ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1967 ). pp. 423 – 38 .
  • S. Sarasan , The Culture of the School and The Problem of Change ( Boston : Allyn and Bacon , 1971 ).
  • An example of this type of relationship in a school environment is found in the descriptions of John Dewey's Laboratory School. K. Mayhew and A. Edwards , The Dewey School: The Laboratory School of the University of Chicago ( New York : D. Appleton and Century Company , 1936 ).
  • P. Berger , Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective ( Garden City , N.Y. : Anchor Books , 1963 ), p. 29 .
  • This issue is explored in G. Wehlage , T. Popkewitz , and H. Hartoonian , “Social Inquiry, Schools and State Assessment,” Social Education 37 ( December 1973 ): 766 – 70 .
  • Berger and Luchmann , Social Construction.
  • J. Rest , “Developmental Psychology as a Guide to Value Education: A Review of 'Kohlbergian' Programs,” Review of Educational Research 44 ( Spring 1974 ): 241 – 58 .
  • H. Thelen , Education and the Human Quest ( Chicago : University of Chicago , 1960 ).
  • T. Popkewitz , and G. Wehlage , “Accountability: Critique and Alternative Perspective,” Interchange 4 ( 1973 ): 48 – 62 .

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