Curriculum Violence
Author: Erhabor Ighodaro
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2013-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781626188556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the historical context of African Americans' educational experiences, and it provides information that helps to assess the dominant discourse on education, which emphasises White middle-class cultural values and standardisation of students' outcomes. Curriculum violence is defined as the deliberate manipulation of academic programming in a manner that ignores or compromises the intellectual and psychological well being of learners. Related to this are the issues of assessment and the current focus on high-stakes standardised testing in schools, where most teachers are forced to teach for the test.