Estudios críticos del currículo: Educación, toma de conciencia y políticas del conocimiento

Abstract

The book presented here, "Critical Curriculum Studies. Education, Awareness and the Politics of Knowledge", takes up critically one of the fundamental cores of any serious discussion about education and the values that underpin it: the school curriculum. In this sense, Wayne Au, professor at the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington, places the dialectical relationship between curriculum, critical consciousness and students' understanding of the world around them as the main focus of his work.  For Wayne Au, asking about the accessibility of knowledge and how it is structured in the curriculum is related to the question of how power is distributed in schools and in society. Throughout the six chapters that make up this book, the author offers us a solid conceptual and empirical basis on how to construct the curriculum in an alternative way to the supremacy of technical rationality, the competence and standardisation of contemporary educational practices. A recommended reading for all those interested in the relationship between culture and education, in which they will find a proposal committed to those educational practices that take as a starting point for curriculum creation those points of view that have been relegated to a subaltern position in the hegemonic curricula.