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Pratt, Nick; Alderton, Julie – Curriculum Journal, 2023
This paper explores how the twin processes of neoliberalism and neoconservatism work together on, and through, curricula and their associated pedagogies. It bridges the gap between policy and classroom practice, focusing on the particular example of the school subject of mathematics and the notion of mastery, operationalised in the English…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Criticism, Mastery Learning, Teaching Methods
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Ogwang, Tom Henry – Curriculum Journal, 2023
Although teacher agency is increasingly recognised by educationists in the Global South, it is not always well understood or accommodated in policy, as experienced with Universal Primary Education (UPE) reforms in Uganda. This empirical study analyses its role on the UPE reforms, the factors that shape it and its implications for curriculum…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Case Studies
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Power, Sally; Newton, Nigel; Taylor, Chris – Curriculum Journal, 2020
This paper focuses on the implications of the transformative student-centred curriculum being developed in Wales for tackling educational inequalities. Informed by long-standing debates within the sociology of education about the role of school knowledge in social and cultural reproduction, our research outlines some of the challenges that those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Equal Education, Transformative Learning