The Backlash Against Relativism: The New Curricular Fundamentalism.
Emerging anxieties about fundamental cultural capital and its importance in the production of a clear and singular Western cultural identity, often referred to as "the good citizen," have begun to produce a backlash in both teaching and broader communities against innovative curricula in the humanit...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Humanities Vol. 5; no. 5; pp. 51 - 60 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
Nov2007
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