ABSTRACT
“Becoming Educated: A Journey of Alienation or Integration?” began life as a guest lecture in a curriculum course offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The problem I set myself for that occasion was to show, using Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory as a case study, not just that received accounts of both education and curriculum were unacceptable, but that to remedy the situation it was necessary to take into account the workings of gender. In its next incarnation the essay was my contribution to the November 1983 Symposium on Excellence and the Curriculum in honor of Mauritz Johnson at SUNY Albany. I then gave an invited address based on it to Division B of the American Educational Research Association at its 1984 meeting, after which I worked much of the material into the last chapter of Reclaiming a Conversation.
