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Curriculum as Cultural Reproduction: An Examination of Metaphor as a Carrier of Ideology

by C. A. Bowers - 1980

An examination is made of dependency in the area of educational analysis and policy formation on the use of metaphorical thinking. A clarification is made of the conceptual difficulties that arise from the inability to understand the difference between the phenomenological world and the symbolic world. (Source: ERIC)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 82 Number 2, 1980, p. 267-289
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 974, Date Accessed: 8/14/2020 7:08:31 AM

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C. Bowers University of Oregon C.A. Bowers teaches education and social thought at the University of Oregon, Eugene. His publications include several books, among them,Cultural Literacy for Freedom (1974). He has just completed a book-length manuscript entitled "Education and the Politics of Cultural Change."

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