590005 SE Educational theorizing (2024S)

In contrast to German-language Lehrplanforschung, Anglo-Saxon curriculum studies focuses more on cultural and power-theoretical issues. Of interest, for example, is why particular school subjects are defined in the first place and why teaching content is selected that is presumed to be an organized learning path for students to follow (Lat: currere). Curricular learning knowledge is thus placed in the cultural and societal context of the school and thereby specifically examined in terms of what expectations are associated with the respective subjects and their bodies of knowledge. Curriculum studies agree that the schooling of learning content is always more than about the subject or discipline, but about attitudes and dispositions of obedient, frugal, or rational citizens.