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- Title
Curriculum, Democracy, and Evaluation.
- Authors
Haynes, Felicity
- Abstract
The article presents a discussion on the role of curriculum, democracy and authority in education. Authority is distinguishable from power in one single respect, that it is willingly and without coercion accepted by those under it. Acknowledgement of the legitimacy of such authority is an essential feature of the concept. Its chief source of legitimation is upward, from below, for when the legitimation is a purely top-down process it becomes authoritarianism and virtually indistinguishable from power, of which authority is a legitimate and distinct subset. Experts are typically well intentioned, and possible side effects of protecting and perpetuating power cliques and protecting the arena of power by withholding knowledge from certain cultural groups need not be intentional. The elephant who dances with the chickens exercises a power of life and death over them even though he has no wish to trample them underfoot. If chickens are trampled underfoot it is because they choose to join in, at least where the dance is not compulsory.
- Subjects
EDUCATION; DEMOCRACY; CHICKENS; AUTHORITY; CURRICULUM; SPECIALISTS
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1986, Vol 88, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818608800104