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	Kritisk läroplansanalys	Kritisk diskursanalys
Ämnesområde	Fältmetoder	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1970s–1980s	Late 1970s–1990s (systematised ~1979–1995)
Upphovsperson	Michael W. Apple; Henry A. Giroux; Paulo Freire (critical pedagogy foundations)	Norman Fairclough; Teun A. van Dijk; Ruth Wodak
Typ	Critical qualitative research approach	Qualitative research method
Ursprungskälla	Apple, M. W. (1979). Ideology and Curriculum. Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN: 978-0415909242	Fairclough, N. (1992). Discourse and Social Change. Polity Press.
Alias	CCA, critical curriculum inquiry, critical curriculum critique, curriculum critique	CDA, Critical Linguistics, Discourse-Historical Approach, Dialectical-Relational Analysis
Närliggande	5	6
Sammanfattning	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.	Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a qualitative method that examines how language in texts and talk constructs, sustains, and challenges relations of power, ideology, and social inequality. Drawing on linguistics, social theory, and critical philosophy, CDA treats discourse not merely as communication but as social practice — a site where dominance is reproduced and where resistance can be articulated. Developed in the late twentieth century by Norman Fairclough, Teun van Dijk, and Ruth Wodak, among others, CDA is applied to political speeches, media texts, policy documents, educational materials, and institutional interactions.