Vertaile menetelmiä

	Kriittinen opetussuunnitelma-analyysi	Opetussuunnitelman analyysi
Tieteenala	Kenttämenetelmät	Kenttämenetelmät
Menetelmäperhe	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Syntyvuosi	1970s–1980s	1949 (Tyler); 1980s–2000s (Posner's analytic framework)
Kehittäjä	Michael W. Apple; Henry A. Giroux; Paulo Freire (critical pedagogy foundations)	George J. Posner (systematic framework); Ralph Tyler (foundational rationale)
Tyyppi	Critical qualitative research approach	Qualitative / mixed document analysis
Alkuperäislähde	Apple, M. W. (1979). Ideology and Curriculum. Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN: 978-0415909242	Posner, G. J. (2004). Analyzing the Curriculum (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-0072823899
Rinnakkaisnimet	CCA, critical curriculum inquiry, critical curriculum critique, curriculum critique	curriculum evaluation, curriculum review, syllabus analysis, curriculum appraisal
Liittyvät	5	6
Tiivistelmä	Critical curriculum analysis examines educational curricula — their content, organisation, and underlying assumptions — through a critical theory lens. Drawing on the work of Apple, Giroux, and Freire, it asks whose knowledge counts, whose interests the curriculum serves, and how schooling reproduces or challenges social inequalities. Rather than treating curriculum as neutral, it treats it as an ideologically saturated artifact shaped by relations of power, race, class, and gender.	Curriculum analysis is a systematic research method for examining the content, structure, goals, and underlying assumptions of educational curricula — including written syllabi, textbooks, lesson plans, and policy documents. By mapping what is taught, how it is sequenced, and what values are embedded, researchers and educators can evaluate alignment with learning objectives, identify gaps or biases, and guide curriculum reform across all levels of education.