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Against Neoliberalism; for Sustainable-Democratic Curriculum; Through Design and Technology Education

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Environment, Ethics and Cultures

Part of the book series: International Technology Education Studies ((ITES,volume 5))

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The educational point of the public school curriculum is understanding, understanding the relations among academic knowledge, the state of society, the processes of self formation, and the character of the historical moment in which we live, in which others have lived, and in which our descendants will someday live.

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Keirl, S. (2015). Against Neoliberalism; for Sustainable-Democratic Curriculum; Through Design and Technology Education. In: Stables, K., Keirl, S. (eds) Environment, Ethics and Cultures. International Technology Education Studies, vol 5. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-938-8_10

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