A longitudinal study of the effects of implementing a National Curriculum project upon classroom processes

Autor: M. J. Rowe, R. G. Hacker
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: The Curriculum Journal. 9:95-103
ISSN: 1469-3704
0958-5176
DOI: 10.1080/0958517970080108
Popis: The National Curriculum in the UK is the archetype of centre‐periphery curriculum reform. This article examines whether it has succeeded with particular reference to science. It concludes that changes in classroom behaviours are the opposite of those which might have been anticipated by the curriculum developers. Three possible explanations are suggested: evaluations of teacher effectiveness were too frequent; there have been reduced levels of funding for schools; and an overloaded mandatory curriculum was resulting in a situation where there was a need to cover more curriculum content than had been covered previously. The changes in classroom processes reported in the article, therefore, can hardly be regarded as indicative of the successful implementation of the National Curriculum, though it is possible that they reflect a reaction to moving from a familiar to an unfamiliar situation.
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