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	Analisi Critica del Curriculum	Ricerca-azione educativa
Campo	Metodi sul campo	Metodi sul campo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1970s–1980s	1940s (Lewin); educational context developed 1970s–1980s
Ideatore	Michael W. Apple; Henry A. Giroux; Paulo Freire (critical pedagogy foundations)	Kurt Lewin (action research foundations); Lawrence Stenhouse and John Elliott (educational adaptation)
Tipo	Critical qualitative research approach	Participatory qualitative research design
Fonte seminale	Apple, M. W. (1979). Ideology and Curriculum. Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN: 978-0415909242	Elliott, J. (1991). Action Research for Educational Change. Open University Press. ISBN: 978-0335096190
Alias	CCA, critical curriculum inquiry, critical curriculum critique, curriculum critique	EAR, practitioner research, teacher action research, classroom action research
Correlati	5	6
Sintesi	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.	Educational action research is a cyclical, practitioner-led inquiry method in which educators systematically investigate a problem or opportunity in their own classroom or school, implement a change, observe its effects, and reflect on findings to guide the next cycle. Rooted in Kurt Lewin's action research framework and developed for educational contexts by Lawrence Stenhouse and John Elliott, it bridges the gap between educational theory and classroom practice by making teachers agents of rigorous inquiry.