Full Description
Responding to profound social, political and technological changes, recent global trends in education have included the emergence of new forms of curriculum policy. Addressing a gap in the literature, this book investigates the ways in which curriculum policy is influenced, formulated, and enacted in a number of countries-cases in Europe.
This important collection uses the concept of 'curriculum making' as an analytical tool to explore the processes and phases of curriculum policy reform experienced across countries. Drawing first on international perspectives and then presenting a series of country case studies, written by internationally recognised curriculum specialists, the chapters explore curriculum making as an activity that occurs across multiple layers of educational systems, through a continual interplay of the global and local. Concluding with a comparative analysis of the contextual factors that shape curricular practices in different contexts, this book is a must-have resource for educational policy makers, researchers, teachers and teacher educators across the globe.
Contents
Curriculum Making: A Conceptual Framing; Mark Priestley, Stavroula Philippou, Daniel Alvunger, Tiina Soini
Chapter 1. National Curriculum Making as More or Less Expressions of and Responses to Globalization; Bob Lingard
Chapter 2. 'Sites' of Curriculum Making in Cyprus: Tracing the Emergence and Transformation of EXPERT Teacher-Subjects; Stavroula Kontovourki, Eleni Theodorou, Stavroula Philippou
Chapter 3. The Ongoing Curriculum Reform in Portugal: Highlighting Trends, Challenges and Possibilities; Ana Mouraz, Ariana Cosme
Chapter 4. Post-Socialist Curricular Reform in Czechia: Multiple Actors and Their Blame Games; Dominik
Dvorak
Chapter 5. Integral Curriculum Review in the Netherlands: In Need of Dovetail Joints; Nienke Nieveen, Wilmad Kuiper
Chapter 6. The Case of Curriculum Development in England: Oases in a Curriculum Desert?; Gemma Parker, David Leat
Chapter 7. Curriculum Reform in Scottish Education: Discourse, Narrative and Enactment; Walter Humes, Mark Priestley
Chapter 8. The Craft of Curriculum Making in Lower Secondary Education in Ireland; Majella Dempsey, Audrey Doyle, Anne Looney
Chapter 9. Understanding Transnational Curriculum Policies and Curriculum Making in Local Municipal Arenas - The Case of Sweden; Daniel Alvunger, Ninni Wahlstrom
Chapter 10. Shared Sense-making as Key for Large Scale Curriculum Reform in Finland; Tiina Soini, Kirsi Pyhalto, Janne Pietarinen
Conclusions: Patterns and Trends in Curriculum Making in Europe; Daniel Alvunger, Tiina Soini, Stavroula Philippou, Mark Priestley
