1. Teachers and the curriculum
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2. Involving teachers in the curriculum
To what extent should teachers be involved with curriculum beyond putting it into operation in their classrooms?
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3. How much should we expect of teachers?
… envisioning?
… designing?
… influencing?
… developing?
… mediating?
… interpreting?
… facilitating?
… evaluating?
… improving?
… enforcing?
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4. Involving teachers in the curriculum
Curriculum envisioners?
Curriculum influencers?
Curriculum designers?
Curriculum developers?
Curriculum mediators?
Curriculum interpreters?
Curriculum facilitators?
Curriculum receivers?
Curriculum evaluators?
Curriculum improvers?
Curriculum enforcers
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5. Involving teachers in the curriculum
What are the pros and cons of teachers being involved more fully in the whole curriculum process?
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6. Curriculum Studies - Session 6
Lawrence Stenhouse
“A curriculum is an attempt to communicate the essential principles and features of an educational proposal in such a form that it is open to critical scrutiny and capable of effective translation into practice.”
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7. Curriculum Studies - Session 6
Lawrence Stenhouse
Thus, curriculum becomes a hypothesis to be tested …
… but how?
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8. Curriculum Studies - Session 6
Lawrence Stenhouse
Stenhouse himself was vague about how this would happen beyond the way he worked with teachers on the Humanities Curriculum Project.
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9. Curriculum Studies - Session 6
Lawrence Stenhouse
However, others (e.g. John Elliott, Stephen Kemmis) saw parallels between what Stenhouse seemed to be suggesting and the emergent ‘action research’ movement or similar approaches like classroom research/teacher research.
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10. Curriculum Studies - Session 6
Action research
A systematic approach to educational enquiry focussed on the classroom. Usually based on a cyclical or spiral model:
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11. Curriculum Studies - Session 6
Action research
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12. Curriculum Studies - Session 6
Lawrence Stenhouse
“There can [should?] be no curriculum development without teacher development.”
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