An introduction. So what does hegemony mean? - Mostly theory : ideology, discourse, hegemony, and the curriculum. What's ideology got to do with it? - The power of discourse, of course! - The purpose of schooling: ideology in the formal and "enacted" curriculum - Less theory, more applications and practice: deconstructing racial and class discourses for a stronger democracy. Teaching about race and racism in our past and present - Social class: the forgotten identity marker in social studies education - Liberal discourses about aboriginal students-a case study of power blindness - Ideology, democracy, and the "good" citizen - Neoliberalism: Laissez-faire revisited - Some final reflections: dare the schools to teach for a fair social order