Constitution and curriculum : hermeneutical semiotics of cases and controversies in education, law, and social science
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Constitution and curriculum : hermeneutical semiotics of cases and controversies in education, law, and social science
Falmer Press, 1991
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When public school policies are designed to "socialize" students by managing the influences which they may be exposed to in the school, are such policies consistent with the "freedom of speech" protected by the First Amendment of the US constitution? Whitson looks at the meanings and understanding behind this question, and how the discourses of constitutional jurisprudence, and socialization research can illuminate practical decisions made by legislators and educators.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction to the cases and controversies: conflicts and crises
- historical survey of cases
- interdisciplinary problems and controversies. Part 2 Doctrinal analysis of Supreme Court precedents: the recent precedents - Pico, Plyler, and Ambach v. Norwick
- earlier related cases
- summary of judicial differences and enigmas. Part 3 Approaches to interpretation: legal scholarship vs. judical reasoning
- application to constitutional cases
- theories of meaning and interpretation. Part 4 Structural semiotics of the cases and controversies: the flag salute cases - Gobitis and Barnette
- conflict
- consciousness and history
- Pico and other recent cases
- limitations of structuralism for method and praxis. Part 5 Post-structuralist re-interpretations: from structuralism to deconstruction
- beyond subjectivism and objectivism
- hermeneutical reformulation of questions
- implications for education
- social science
- policy
- law.
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