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Curriculum Circus: Juggling Curriculum, Science, And The Arts, Domenica Devine
Curriculum Circus: Juggling Curriculum, Science, And The Arts, Domenica Devine
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Education should open the door to better lives and better jobs. The fact is that it does not. In part, there are many causes including rigidity, political interference, and the separation between disciplines that we teach without context and without dialogue with our students. Specifically, I think that we should use education as a way to help students make better choices and have a better life. One way we can do it is by reconciling science with the other disciplines. And that is what is at the heart of curriculum studies.
There is a pervasive belief that the Western ideology …