Anyon, Jean, Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work, Journal of Education (Boston University), 162(Winter, 1980), 67-92. Reprinted pp. 366-389 in James R. Gress, ed., Curriculum: An Introduction to the Field. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan, 1988.

Examines contrasting schools differentiated by social class and finds reproduction of economic relationship in each

Anyon, Jean, Adequate Social Science, Curriculum Investigations, and Theory, Theory into Practice, 21(Winter, 1982), 34-37.

Argues that social science should be empirically grounded, theoretically explanatory, and socially critical; sets criteria for adequate curriculum theory

Anyon, Jean, Schools as Agencies of Social Legitimation, The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 3(Summer, 1981), 86-103. Reprinted pp. 175-200 in William F. Pinar, ed., Contemporary Curriculum Discourses . Scottsdale, AZ: Gorsuch Scarisbrick, 1988.

Documents social and economic stratification in students\u27 experiences of school and in the content of the curriculum; draws implications

Anyon, Jean, Ideology and United States History Textbooks, Harvard Educational Review, 49(August, 1979), 361-386.

Examines seventeen secondary level history textbooks and finds an ideology that serves the interests of only particular groups in society

Anyon, Jean, Workers, Labor, and Economic History, and Textbook Content, pp. 37-60 in Michael W. Apple and Lois Weis, eds., Ideology and Practice in Schooling. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.

Examines ideology present in history textbooks

Anyon, Jean, The Retreat of Marxism and Socialist Feminism: Postmodern and Poststructural Theories in Education, Curriculum Inquiry, 24(Summer, 1994), 115-133.*

Critiques work of Cherryholmes, Lather, Ellsworth, Giroux, and McLaren with respect to the lack of empirical basis for their critical theories and offers an alternative approach of her own. Cherryholmes responds in a related article that follows

Anyon, Jean, Social Class and School Knowledge, Curriculum Inquiry, 11(Spring, 1981), 3-42.

Reports a study of the stratification of school knowledge in five elementary schools in two districts in New Jersey

Anyon, Jean, Elementary Schooling and Distinctions of Social Class, Interchange, 12(Nos. 2/3, 1981), 118-132.

Notes social class distinctions in elementary classrooms

Anyon, Jean, Race, Social Class, and Educational Reform in an Inner-city School, Teachers College Record, 97 (Fall, 1995), 69-94.

Gives a case study of the ways blackness and whiteness, poverty and affluence, cultural marginalization and social legitamacy affect school reform