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1 Teachers and the curriculum
Curriculum Studies - Session 6

2 Involving teachers in the curriculum
To what extent should teachers be involved with curriculum beyond putting it into operation in their classrooms? Curriculum Studies - Session 6

3 How much should we expect of teachers?
… envisioning? … designing? … influencing? … developing? … mediating? … interpreting? … facilitating? … evaluating? … improving? … enforcing? Curriculum Studies - Session 5

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 Curriculum Studies - Session 6

5 Involving teachers in the curriculum
What are the pros and cons of teachers being involved more fully in the whole curriculum process? Curriculum Studies - Session 6

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.” Curriculum Studies - Session 6

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Lawrence Stenhouse Thus, curriculum becomes a hypothesis to be tested … … but how? Curriculum Studies - Session 6

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Lawrence Stenhouse Stenhouse himself was vague about how this would happen beyond the way he worked with teachers on the Humanities Curriculum Project. Curriculum Studies - Session 6

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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. Curriculum Studies - Session 6

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Action research A systematic approach to educational enquiry focussed on the classroom. Usually based on a cyclical or spiral model: Curriculum Studies - Session 6

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Action research Curriculum Studies - Session 6

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Lawrence Stenhouse “There can [should?] be no curriculum development without teacher development.” Curriculum Studies - Session 6


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