{"title":"Participation in national curriculum reform - coherence from complexity","authors":"Sanna-Mari Salonen-Hakomäki, Tiina Soini","doi":"10.1080/00220272.2023.2256388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2023.2256388","url":null,"abstract":"National curriculum reform is a complex negotiation point of how basic education should be practiced and what role it should take in society. The question of participation in this process is central to creating a coherent, responsible, and implementable curriculum—but still left for little investigation in the national level reforms. Our goal was to answer, how can participation in curriculum reform create coherent system-wide change in a complex education system? In this study, we approach the participative national Finnish Core Curriculum Reform 2014, through interviews of the reform steering group who acted as central stakeholders in the reform. We practiced a thinking with theory -oriented analysis and utilized Michel Callon’s four moments of translation as a theoretical framework to examine the interviews.Results illustrate how the moment of interessement leads to enrolment—how participation adds complexity to reforms but also offers an opportunity to build more coherent and lasting system-wide change from it during the processes of learning with and from each other. The results also provide us with a practical view on why coherent, lasting change cannot be authoritatively forced in a system, such as the education system, but is by its nature networked, collaborative and shared.","PeriodicalId":47817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curriculum Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134947880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Profession, organization, and academic discipline. Differentiation of a special education science in Germany since 1900","authors":"Vera Moser","doi":"10.1080/00220272.2023.2248213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2023.2248213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curriculum Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77212699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National Curriculum and Assessment in England and the continuing narrowed experiences of lower-attainers in primary schools","authors":"E. Hargreaves, Laura Quick, Denise Buchanan","doi":"10.1080/00220272.2023.2253455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2023.2253455","url":null,"abstract":"A considerable body of global educational literature has examined how schooling policy based on measuring and managing performance has narrowed children’s access both to curriculum breadth and to diversity in pedagogy. This article approaches these curriculum dilemmas within the global concern for children’s wellbeing and social justice. In particular, it focuses on the experiences of children designated by this system as lower-attaining, which is a much under-researched aspect of these concerns. Based on an innovative five-year life-history study of 23 seven to 12 year-old lower-attaining school-children in the English system, this article examines how these children themselves depicted their schooling experiences. We conclude, drawing on term-by-term experiences narrated by these children, that the current curriculum and assessment arrangements narrowed their opportunities for participation in engaged learning, especially in comparison to higher-attaining children; which undermined their wellbeing and brought social justice into question. The children high-lighted the negative impact of curriculum emphases on mathematics and English rather than on non-core and outside-school curriculum areas for lower-attaining in particular; and the emphasis on attainment rather than participation in learning. They had few opportunities to have their specific preferences validated, leading in some cases to these lower-attainers being excluded from participation in school-learning.","PeriodicalId":47817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curriculum Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83927124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Framing curriculum making: bureaucracy and couplings in school administration","authors":"Wieland Wermke, Ronny Freier, D. Nordholm","doi":"10.1080/00220272.2023.2251543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2023.2251543","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to undertake a comparative investigation of school administration to understand further the frames of curriculum making. School administration is an under-illuminated aspect of curriculum research. The paper commences from the notion that, in mass education, a school system is operationalized by many schools, which are coupled to each other and to political decisions. Here is the curriculum vital. Building on the classic work of Stefan Hopmann, a curriculum is part of the administrational structure of the school system. The Article suggests several categories that can describe the nature and function of school administration in various contexts. There are external matters of schooling, such as school buildings, school food, etc. and internal matters of schooling, such as curriculum, pedagogy, and evaluation. Individual schools and school administration are coupled via licences, and programmatic, professional, and procedural supervision. The article employs these categories with a comparison of a decentralized Sweden and a centralized Germany. The comparison investigated 290 Swedish municipality school administrations and 45 state education authorities in 4 German federal states. In this comparison many interesting similarities between both contexts can be hightligthed.","PeriodicalId":47817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curriculum Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75088093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The racism of Maria Montessori","authors":"Thomas Fallace","doi":"10.1080/00220272.2023.2249067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2023.2249067","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this historical study, the author explores the racial views of Maria Montessori as expressed in her largely forgotten 1913 book, Pedagogical Anthropology. As a physician and physical anthropologist, Montessori espoused three racial beliefs that were in wide circulation during the late nineteenth century: biological racism, racial determinism, and craniology. Montessori combined these beliefs to warrant the underlying conviction that the races of the world were organized hierarchically with the White races at the top and the races of colour at the bottom, and that, even within the broader White race, there were numerous racial types that could likewise be organized hierarchically based on their physiological features and intellectual potential. The author demonstrates how Montessori expressed these racist beliefs in Pedagogical Anthropology, how she connected them to her famous pedagogy and curriculum, and how they fit into the racial discourses of contemporaneous educators and anthropologists.","PeriodicalId":47817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curriculum Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75325206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Quay, B. Williams, Jason Pietzner, Abbey Boyer, D. Browning, Adam Brodie-McKenzie
{"title":"Vygotsky’s perezhivanies with Dewey’s occupations: Improving integration of teaching and assessing via creative learning units","authors":"J. Quay, B. Williams, Jason Pietzner, Abbey Boyer, D. Browning, Adam Brodie-McKenzie","doi":"10.1080/00220272.2023.2242914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2023.2242914","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The work of teachers is regularly quizzed and questioned. The responses called for commonly implicate assessment, as this provides answers about learning, which many believe directly translate into answers about teaching. We question teaching differently, beginning with the basic what, how and who questions, while also posing the why question: ‘Why do you teach?’ This enables us to draw student engagement and achievement of intended learning outcomes into closer relation via an improved integration of teaching and assessing. In our exploration of these questions, we engage with aspects of Vygotsky’s and Dewey’s educational theories, highlighting correspondences and differences. Our aim is to illuminate convergence around two key concepts: perezhivanies and occupations. Both speak to recognition of a unit of life as a unity of person in context that can function as a unit of study in educational terms. We bring this theoretical convergence to teaching practice via creative learning units. This unit planning framework offers a coherent approach that entwines student engagement and the achievement of intended learning outcomes.","PeriodicalId":47817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curriculum Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87122638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}