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Available online at ScienceDirect Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 89 (2013) 59 – 63 2nd Cyprus International Conference on Educational Research, (CY-ICER 2013) The school Curriculum as Viewed by the Critical Theorists Akbar salehia*, Kayhan Mohammadkhanib aFirst affiliation,Assistant professor in philosophy of education, Kharazmi university,(T,M,U) Tehran ,Iran bSecond affiliation, philosophy of education (Ph.D), Kharazmi university, Tehran, Iran Abstract The school curriculum and its related issues have turned out to be the subject of debate among educationalists in the recent years; the new social, cultural, political, and economic developments have shaped a new understanding of the school curriculum and affected the educational practices all over the world. These developments have posed new challenges to the educationalists as a number of new theorists have emerged, in Germany and the USA, who questioned the value of established social and educational principles-including the school curriculum- by the application of the critical pedagogy. The present descriptive-analytical study aimed at defining the basic features of the school curriculum on the basis of the new critical approaches. The data were collected through library research method. ? 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. ? 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. SSeelleeccttiioonnaanndd/oor rpepeere-rre-rveievwiewunduenrdreerspreosnpsiobnilsiitybioliftyProoff.ADsrs. oHcu.sPeyroinf.UDzru.nZboeyhlrua, ?Nzea?r?nEaars,tAUtnaitvuerrksiTtye,aFcahceurltyTroafiEnidnugcaAticoand, emy, North CCyypprruuss Keywords: Curriculum, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theorists, The Hidden Curriculum; 1.Introduction The school curriculum in any given country is reflective of the objectives and the educational philosophies that govern the run of the daily life. These very philosophies are affected by the sociopolitical changes in both local and social contexts. The educ