Session Information
03 SES 06, Schools as Curriculum Agencies (Part 2)
Symposium, continued from 03 SES 03
Time:
2008-09-11
10:30-12:00
Room:
B2 216
Chair:
Wilmad Kuiper
Discussant:
Edmond H.F. Law
Contribution
SCHOOLS AS CURRICULUM AGENCIES
European perspectives on School-Based Curriculum Development
Introduction
This symposium starts from the observation that the current educational policy landscape concerning centralization of curriculum planning in Europe is varied. In several countries there has been (again) a growing tendency towards increasing autonomy of schools, reviving to some extent the rationale and aims of school-based curriculum development. Schools (again) have been challenged to take the role of curriculum agencies by reexamining their curriculum and redeveloping it in line with their own aspirations.
Overview of the symposium
Against the backround of the experiences of the past, this symposium will provide insight in and illustrate the current application of the concept of school-based curriculum development as it is found in six European countries: Austria, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
Each contribution starts from the same framework covering the following topics and guiding questions:
1. Overview of school-based curriculum development
a. What are major changes in curriculum orientations in the last 10 years?
b. What is the role of schools within curriculum policies (in different curriculum domains, such as content, pedagogy, curriculum and assessment, textbooks)? What do role division and division in responsibilities between schools and government (key decision makers) look like?
c. What are roles of other (external support) agencies?
d. What are general patterns in practices of SBCD?
2. Empirical materials that illuminate the SBCD practices
3. Conclusion
Contributors to the symposium
The following scholars in the domain of school-based curriculum development will contribute to the symposium:
PART 1
* the Netherlands
Nienke Nieveen, SLO Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development, Enschede
Jan van den Akker, SLO Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development, Enschede
* Finland
Jouni Välijärvi, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä
* Ireland
Majella Dempsey, NCCA National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Dublin
Majella O'Shea, NCCA National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Dublin
Anne Looney, NCCA National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Dublin
PART 2
* Germany
Uwe Hameyer, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
* Austria
Michael Schratz, Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck
* Sweden
Ulf Blossing, Karlstad University, Karlstad
Mats Ekholm, Karlstad University, Karlstad,
Hans-Åke Scherp, Karlstad University, Karlstad
The six case descriptions of this symposium, together with six Asian case descriptions (China, Hongkong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan) will be combined in a book edited by Edmond Law (Hong Kong Institute of Education) and Nienke Nieveen (SLO Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development), entitled Schools as Curriculum Agencies: Asian and European Perspectives. Edmond Law will contribute to the symposium as an discussant.
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