Tag: curriculum
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II. Normalisation
The process of normalisation (in the Foucauldian context meaning ‘to refine and make everything the same’) within the school separates children from their individuality and binds them to collective standards. Examination is designed to reward children who have come to the same conclusion as each other or the same conclusion of adults and to view…
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I. The Curriculum
Childhood is experienced by every individual, therefore so is the curriculum. Illich (1971) questions the rhetoric that young people require “full time attendance at an obligatory curriculum” (p. 26); this societal rule has the potential to dictate the thoughts and actions of an entire population. Novel ideas are not recognised by exam boards; Murphy (2013,…
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