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Scanlon, Dylan; MacPhail, Ann; Calderón, Antonio – Curriculum Journal, 2023
The aim of this paper is to explore and provide an alternative theoretical viewpoint, informed by empirical studies, of the curriculum policy enactment process which spans across different curriculum policy spaces by drawing on figurational sociology. This paper constructs this alternative figurational viewpoint of the policy enactment process by…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Stakeholders
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Scanlon, Dylan; MacPhail, Ann; Calderon, Antonio – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
A Physical Education Development Group (PEDG) was responsible for constructing a new school subject curriculum, Leaving Certificate Physical Education (LCPE), in Ireland. This paper provides an insight into this development group and explores the process of curriculum development, and the influence of roles and power-ratios within the group, in…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Exit Examinations, Curriculum Development
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Coulter, Maura; Scanlon, Dylan; MacPhail, Ann; O'Brien, Wesley; Belton, Sarahjane; Woods, Catherine – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2020
Major curriculum changes have recently occurred in Ireland, including redeveloping the primary curriculum and the enactment of the Junior Cycle Framework (DES, 2015). Positive and negative experiences affect the attitudes which contribute to determining the quality of curricular experiences. Framed in the work of Fullan, M. (1991. "The New…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Alignment (Education), Educational Change, Curriculum Development