A Historical Analysis of Currere as an Autobiographical Course in Reconceptualist

پژوهش نامه مبانی تعلیم و تربیت

Article 1, Volume 5, Issue 2, February 2016, Pages 44-61   

Document Type: پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/fe.v5i2.40967

Author

mostafa Ghaderi^*

دانشگاه کردستان

Abstract

This research proceeded Historical analyzing of currere as autobiographical course in reconceptualist works. Therefore, reconceptualist works studied by discourse analyzing. Unit of analyzing was sentenced and its level was an explanation. In order to research questions data divided to four categories: Meaning of currere, methods of currere, stages of currere and politic and sociologic base in reconceptualism. The results showed that meaning of Currere at Reconceptualist works has come with different senses, so: biographical pathway, personal pathway, praxis, meta-ascendant challenges at universe, a kind of lived experience, thinking about past and regards to future, a model for curriculum research, self-conscious at work with self and another, complicated understanding of possibilities at curriculum as gender, culture, ethnic, bracketing of teacher and learning experiences, to touch experience of self and revision of school experiences. Also, self-story and autobiographies are a method of currere. Politic and sociologic base of a currere were individual and social reconstruction.

Keywords

currere; discourse analizing; Reconceptualism

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