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The curriculum in and for a democratic society1

Wilfred Carr

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The purpose of this article is to offer an analysis of the political and social role of the curriculum in a modern democratic society. It seeks to show how the assumptions embedded in inherited curriculum ideologies are impeding the potential of the curriculum in modern democratic societies from becoming a curriculum ‘for democracy’, that is a curriculum which would be constitutive of a more democratic form of social life.

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Key concepts: Curriculum, Democracy, Ideology, Politics, Curriculum theory, Sociology, Emergent curriculum, Political science