The curriculum in and for a democratic society

Abstract

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. © 1998 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.