Curriculum as a Discourse: Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Revive Curriculum Reconceptualists' Thought
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Curriculum reconceptualists seek to reshape the field of curriculum studies. Unlike traditional curricularists, theyreprobate the technical approach of curriculum development because of its pure functional and managerial tendency.Reconceptualists look at curriculum from various philosophy-saturated perspectives. One of their claims isconsidering curriculum as a discourse, and the main task curricularists have to cope with is to understand thisdiscourse.Unfortunately, reconceptualists penetrate deeply into philosophy without offering a clear practical vision that helpsthem transform their insights. In this paper, I argue that reconceptualists can bridge the gap through consideringCritical Discourse Analysis (CDA) assumptions. The idea of understanding curriculum as a discourse could betheoretically and practically detected when employing (CDA).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.058 | 0.060 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.015 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.069 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.027 | 0.030 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".