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curriculum studies in relation to the social context of education  

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  • Curriculum studies employs the social context of education to understand the tensions between the social sciences and the psychological, measurement sciences. Heretofore, in the earliest beginnings of the curriculum field, scientific management and psychological sciences predominated curriculum with a behavioral approach that categorized and structured hierarchies of student ability and aptitude, generated from a worldview that elevated measurement and testing as the ultimate determinant. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Curriculum Studies in Relation to the Social Context of Education]

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