Curriculum - Teaching and Testing (English)
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among the many functions curriculum plays in the schools beyond a representation of the approved culture and perspectives adopted by the state and the groups that are in power within the state is that it is the sanctified content to be taught and as such, becomes the platform for subsequent testing. But as we shall see, testing does not, in some more physically simply follow the designation of curriculum content. Often tests have content of their own apart from what may be in the curriculum. So tests are never neutral tools, as the examples and content in them are loaded with forms of sanctified cultural capital Bourdieu has noted that there is no way out of the game of culture, and what he reminds us is that the objectification of the approved and sanctioned culture embodied in curriculum and tests is that the objectification is always bound to remain partial and therefore false. So long as it fails to include the point of view from which it speaks and also fails to construct the game as a whole. Even as this book speaks to teaching and testing or testing and teaching, the perspective is not to assume that the content of either remains above serious questioning