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ERIC Number: EJ770641
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 21
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0034-4087
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Analysis of Life Curriculum for White Cultural Bias
Cross, Karen J.
Religious Education, v98 n2 p239-259 2003
Contemporary White cultural bias is a complex social pattering and possessiveness rooted in unchallenged assumptions and privileged status arising from historic and structural racism, classism, sexism, and suburbanism. A church school curriculum that reflects only the experience, language, and culture of writers, editors, and illustrators raised in the White, suburban, middle-class context serves only to perpetuate the cultural bias to the detriment of all children. The detriment is of one sort for White, middle-class, suburban children who receive messages of entitlement and divine blessing, and of another sort for children who are not White, middle class, and suburban who receive messages of being an outsider or forgotten. Both forms beget a malnourished spirit and neither is healthy, honest or promotes the common life to which the Gospel points. In this article, the author provides an analysis of a popular curriculum--LiFE Curriculum--for evidences of White cultural bias in the explicit implicit and null curricula. This analysis will add proportion and may provide insights for training writers and educators today. (Contains 2 footnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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