Curriculum as Cultural Reproduction: An Examination of Metaphor as a Carrier of Ideology.

Bowers, C. A.

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Publication Date: 1980

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Curriculum as Cultural Reproduction: An Examination of Metaphor as a Carrier of Ideology.

Bowers, C. A.

Teachers College Record, v82 n2 p267-89 Win 1980

An examination is made of dependency in the area of educational analysis and policy formation on the use of metaphorical thinking. A clarification is made of the conceptual difficulties that arise from the inability to understand the difference between the phenomenological world and the symbolic world. (JN)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Alienation, Culture, Curriculum Development, Educational Anthropology, Humanism, Metaphors, Social Differences, Socioeconomic Influences, Values

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