"I would conclude that despite similarities in some curriculum topics and materials, there are profound differences in the curricul urn and the curriculum-in-use in the sample of schools in this study What counts as knowledge in the schools differs along dimensions of structure and content. The assessment will focus on reproductive and nonreproductive aspects of knowledge in each social-class setting. "Reproductive" will refer to aspects of school knowledge that contribute directly to the legitimation and perpetuation of ideologies, practices, and privileges constitutive of present economic and poli tical structures. "Nonreproductive" knowledge is that which facilitates fundamental transformation of ideologies and practices... the genesis of truly transformative activity is in the contradictions
within and between social settings." (Anyon,1981, p.31,32)