Only when knowledge becomes legal knowledge can it enter the field of curriculum. Critical pedagogy holds that curriculum knowledge is the knowledge of the ruling class and represents the interests of the ruling class; the curriculum knowledge is chosen by the dominant class in the society with its power, and the knowledge in line with the interests of the class is given a legal status and introduced into the school; because the curriculum knowledge can reproduce the ideology of the ruling class, spread its culture, and finally consolidate its position, the ruling class of has to strictly screen the curriculum knowledge into the school; the criterion of selection is to conform to the ideology of the ruling class, so that the knowledge finally selected is the knowledge that represents the ideology and values of the ruling class. Critical pedagogy opens a new perspective and methodology system for the study of curriculum knowledge selection, but it also has some limitations.

Fengyun Wei. A Study on Critical Pedagogy's View of Curriculum Knowledge. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2021), Vol. 3, Issue 3: 26-30. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2021.030306.

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