SCHOOL, CURRÍCULUM AND SOCIETY

Abstract

This article makes a theoretical framework about the curriculum as one of the core concepts ofcontemporary educational discourse. After mentioning those vicissitudes of the school education since itsancient origins,  it is analyzed the development of the concept as historically conditioned social construction which seeks to meet the demands of the industrial societies. By following Lundgren (1997) and Saviani (2010) that addresses the complexity of the curriculum in the text that connects the context of production and reproduction in the context of human societies whose development determined the separation between those contexts.  The development of technical discourse over education during the twentieth century, established the appearance of the theory course under the umbrella of rationality. Yetone approaches its derivations in the practical and critical perspectives as alternatives to that source. In the end,  it turns it into discussing issues to  the contemporary views about  the curriculum within the framework of the political nature of schoolwork and its relation to the output from our humanity