| Abstrakt: |
This article presents information related to control and autonomy in schools and entitlement in school curricula. Entitlement is a term that has become common in political and educational discourse and is defined as the students' rights to a common curriculum and one which is compulsory for all pupils. Discussion of the school regime in the research school shows that although students begin secondary school optimistically, feeling that it is more grown up than primary school and that teachers treated them differently, it is not long before the novelty of change gives way to feelings of frustration over school rules and regulations in particular. Differentiation affects the extent to which individual students perceive their entitlement of both the formal and informal curriculum because their experience of each influence their developing sense of self as an individual, a learner and as a member of the school. While students have little control and autonomy over their learning, access to what opportunities exist are highly differentiated and easier for students from ethnic minority backgrounds, those with special needs, and those with problems outside school. |
