4.+The+Battle

"The curriculum in any time and place becomes the site of a battleground where the fight is over whose values and beliefs will achieve the legitimation and the respect that acceptance into the national discourse provides." (Kliebard, 2004, p. 290) @http://www.starwarswallpaper.org/wallpapers/battles/star-wars-battle-wallpaper/ “The question may then be raised as to why this struggle was so bitterly fought. The most immediate answer is that it was a battle for control over the forms of knowledge as well as the values that an important social institution would pass on to the next generation.” (Kliebard, 2004, p. 287)

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“[…] in terms of status politics, they were unquestionably projecting their treasured social and moral creeds into the question of what should be taught in schools. Whatever else the curriculum may be in terms of what actually gets taught to children, it is also the arena where ideological armies clash over the status of deeply held convictions.” (Kliebard, 2004, p. 289f.) NEXT