Politics of Curriculum: Origins, Controversies, and Significance of Critical Perspective
William F. Pinar and C.A. Bowers

After reading this article I think I had more questions rather than understanding of the politics of curriculum. What I do understand is curriculum is political. What I do find interesting in the link between curriculum and society. It seems that the academically and intellectually rich get richer and the poor get poorer. No matter what era you read about, what is consistent with schools is that society influences what type of curriculum is being taught. When you don’t follow the majority or what society tells you to do, it makes you resistance or disrupting the norm. Are you as a teacher really in control of your teaching or is the curriculum controlling your teaching and what students are going to learn. To some teachers they resist change because it seem that it is more work to change what they are doing, even if it is not working for the students. One solution to this problem is to give students more control over their own learning, but when will there be acceptance of this problem. The teacher is the key to student learning and they have the power to break through the politics and reflect upon what will work for your teaching and your students learning. Curriculum is affected by the society and majority, so how can we as teachers control these influences in order prepare our students for the future. We are not producing students that are going into trades and labor fields, but students who will become problems solver who can to think on their feet.