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Buras, Kristen L.

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Rightist multiculturalism: Core lessons on the politics of neoconservative school reform.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rightist multiculturalism: Core lessons on the politics of neoconservative school reform./
Author:	Buras, Kristen L.
Description:	241 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Michael W. Apple.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-08A.
Subject:	Education, Bilingual and Multicultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3279030
ISBN:	9780549191100

Rightist multiculturalism: Core lessons on the politics of neoconservative school reform.
Buras, Kristen L.

Rightist multiculturalism: Core lessons on the politics of neoconservative school reform. - 241 p.

Adviser: Michael W. Apple.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2007.

Two decades ago, E. D. Hirsch authored Cultural Literacy. This bestseller generated a wave of debate as it declared not only the importance of common culture to national unity, but defined the relevant content of that culture and blamed multiculturalism for undermining it. Deemed Eurocentric by critics, it nonetheless metamorphosed into Core Knowledge---a curriculum for grades pre-K-8 that includes specific content and classroom resources. Under Hirsch's Core Knowledge Foundation, the first school implemented the curriculum in 1990. A nationwide movement has since evolved and focused on reforming education through Core, which has been adopted by nearly 1,000 schools in an array of communities.

ISBN: 9780549191100Subjects--Topical Terms:

626653
Education, Bilingual and Multicultural.

Rightist multiculturalism: Core lessons on the politics of neoconservative school reform.
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520 $a Two decades ago, E. D. Hirsch authored Cultural Literacy. This bestseller generated a wave of debate as it declared not only the importance of common culture to national unity, but defined the relevant content of that culture and blamed multiculturalism for undermining it. Deemed Eurocentric by critics, it nonetheless metamorphosed into Core Knowledge---a curriculum for grades pre-K-8 that includes specific content and classroom resources. Under Hirsch's Core Knowledge Foundation, the first school implemented the curriculum in 1990. A nationwide movement has since evolved and focused on reforming education through Core, which has been adopted by nearly 1,000 schools in an array of communities.
520 $a This dissertation considers why an educational reform initially developed to mediate against the multicultural "threat" has garnered wider support, including that of traditionally marginalized groups. It first charts the history of neoconservatism, which partly illuminates the blending of concerns above and below within Core. Hirsch's vision of culture and curriculum is next analyzed with a focus on how underlying assumptions, whether about cultural deficiency or democracy, appeal to unequally empowered groups. Such dynamics are further explored by tracing the growth of the Core Knowledge movement and the diverse interests and peculiar alliances that have strengthened and challenged it. History textbooks edited by Hirsch for Core schools are likewise examined. Here again, Core appeals to disparate groups by constructing a "new old history" that conditionally but more comprehensively incorporates dominant and subaltern communities in narratives of the national past.
520 $a What might be learned is that we are entering an era in which more progressive forms of multiculturalism are being redefined by powerful groups along conservative lines and embraced as part of a decisive compromise. Such compromise---capable of appealing to the sensibilities of marginalized groups while at the same time steering those sensibilities in dominant cultural directions-reveals a new and potentially more "successful" hegemonic strategy called rightist multiculturalism.
520 $a Ultimately, this research assesses not only the limitations of and possibilities for Core Knowledge promoting critical understandings of national identity and cultural democracy, but illuminates more generally why educational reforms initiated by neoconservatives have acquired wider support despite criticism that their vision is culturally elitist.
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