Critical Race Theory for Pharmacy Diversity Curriculum

Toward a pharmacy curriculum theory: spiral integration for pharmacy education

The explosion of cumulative new molecular entities approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has more than doubled in the last 30 years, from approximately 700 in 1985 to a staggering 1,539 as of December 31st, 2015.1,2 Pharmacists are expected to be the “drug experts” of the healthcare team, providing insight on ideal drug therapies, doses, formulations, side effects, dr...

From Race to Class Struggle: Re-Problematizing Critical Race Theory

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 as...

Islamophobia, Racism and Critical Race Theory

Critical race theory (CRT) in today’s multi-cultural society seems somewhat of a difficult concept to appreciate. The notion that racism and inequality exists regardless of any group formation advocating racism in the 21st century illustrates race and inequality play a significant role in western society. Many critical race theorists in the field suggest that racism transcends across white elit...

2 Whatever Happened to Curriculum Theory ? Critical Realism

In the face of what has been characterised as a 'crisis' in curriculum – an apparent decline of some aspects of curriculum studies combined with the emergence of new types of national curriculum which downgrade knowledge – some writers have been arguing for the use of realist theory to address these issues. This paper offers a contribution to this debate, drawing upon critical realism, and espe...