Sociological approaches to curriculum: Theoretical orientations and research perspectives

• Autor(a) principal: Forquin, Jean Claude
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação & Realidade
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/educacaoerealidade/article/view/71652
• topic: Sociologia do currículo. currículo e cultura escolar. Sociologia da educação; Curriculum Sociology. curriculum and school culture. Sociology of education

In recent years, the sociological thought about the school has been renewed, in many countries, by the emphasis given to the issue of curriculum. I describe briefly, in the present artic\e, some of the approaches of this new area of research. I mention, firstly, the original and truly "foundational" contribution, in the sixties, of the writings of the British sociologists, notably those belonging to the "new sociology" perspective. I discuss, then, the writings (the French as well the foreign ones) which emphasize those elements which are called, sometimes, "real currículum" and "hidden currículum". Finally, I stress the possibility of a productive dialogue between historians, educators and sociologists of currículum, on the issue of school culture.