Through Joshua Gap: Curricular Control and the Constructed Community.

Post, David

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ERIC Number: EJ450830

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1992

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Through Joshua Gap: Curricular Control and the Constructed Community.

Post, David

Teachers College Record, v93 n4 p673-96 Sum 1992

Analysis of data on a conflict between the Joshua Gap (California) school district and local parents over the district's decision to utilize a multiculturally oriented textbook series suggests that contrasting images of the local and larger U.S. community, and contrasting views about the role of schooling, contributed to the conflict. (IAH)

Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Family School Relationship, Multicultural Textbooks, Parent Attitudes, Politics of Education, Relevance (Education), Resistance to Change, Role of Education, School Community Relationship, Socialization, Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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