Curriculum Development: Merging Postmodernism with Critical Theory

During the past two weeks I have been struggling with a response to this question and my mind has been spinning around and within multiple understandings of “postmodern” and “critical” approaches to curriculum studies. As I now begin to articulate my scattered ideas, charted and mounted on the walls around me, I realize that I have prepared myself for a much larger project than what has been asked of me. Upon discovering that the choice of format for our response was open, I began to align my thinking with visual examples from historical and contemporary art that might be used to accompany my written responses. I will incorporate only a few of the artworks I researched – that component of this essay is larger work in progress.