JCT Today

Authors

  • William F. Pinar

Abstract

Pinar links the circumstances of JCT today with those surrounding its founding 30 years ago. Then the field's paradigm shift constituted its internal crisis, a shift precipitated by the 1960s National Curriculum Reform movement. Those circumstances called for a journal committed to the reconceptualization of curriculum studies. Today the field faces another set of difficult circumstances, intensified by the Bush Administration's effort to silence dissent by legislating evidence-based research. Coupled with internal tensions, specifically those associated with identity politics and social ameliorism, present circumstances conspire to produce a presentistic and fragmenting field. Pinar recommends that once again JCT look to the future. This time, however, the route to the future lies in the past.

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Published

2008-12-02