TY - JOUR
T1 - Why doesn't the creed read ""Always be critical?"" An examination of a liberal curriculum
AU - Longwell-Grice, Hope
AU - Letts, William
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = Anthropology and Education Quarterly. ISSNs: 0161-7761;
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Using ethnographic data collected in a second grade classroom over the course of a school year, this paper describes the ways in which one school's discourse of liberalism is deleteriously deployed. We view the school's discipline creed as emblematic of the school's liberal curriculum, and interrogate the effects on four African American boys in the classroom when the school enacts this creed. Despite the agency that these boys obviously had, they were unable to control the ways in which they were placed at a structural disadvantage and manipulated by a system far more powerful than they were. The results were that these four boys suffered. Not only did the intended liberal curriculum fail to be translated fully into the enacted curriculum, the liberal underpinnings of this curriculum precluded teachers and students from taking any critical stance.
AB - Using ethnographic data collected in a second grade classroom over the course of a school year, this paper describes the ways in which one school's discourse of liberalism is deleteriously deployed. We view the school's discipline creed as emblematic of the school's liberal curriculum, and interrogate the effects on four African American boys in the classroom when the school enacts this creed. Despite the agency that these boys obviously had, they were unable to control the ways in which they were placed at a structural disadvantage and manipulated by a system far more powerful than they were. The results were that these four boys suffered. Not only did the intended liberal curriculum fail to be translated fully into the enacted curriculum, the liberal underpinnings of this curriculum precluded teachers and students from taking any critical stance.
U2 - 10.1525/aeq.2001.32.2.191
DO - 10.1525/aeq.2001.32.2.191
M3 - Article
VL - 32
SP - 191
EP - 213
JO - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
JF - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
SN - 0161-7761
IS - 2
ER -