Curriculum of the Oppressed

In this chapter the author illustrates what curricular standpoint looks like in practice in schools and communities. This chapter begins with an overview of the framework for curricular standpoint, and then moves on to share historical examples of counter-hegemonic curriculum in practice. These examples include social Sunday schools, the work of Carter G. Woodson, and the Virginia Course of Study , all from the early 1900s. This chapter then offers some contemporary examples of curricular standpoint in practice, drawing on frameworks for Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, science education, and mathematics education. The author concludes this chapter with some reflections on the power of resistance to oppression through curriculum.