The recontextualisation of knowledge: towards a social realist approach to curriculum and didactics

Autor: Jonathan Lilliedahl
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy; 2015:1-Curriculum vs. Didaktik revisited. Towards a transnational curriculum theory.
ISSN: 2002-0317
DOI: 10.3402/nstep.v1.27008
Popis: This article examines the relationship of curriculum and didactics through a social realist lens. Curriculumand didactics are viewed as linked and integrated by the common issue of educational content. The authorargues that the selection of educational content and its organisation is a matter of recontextualising principlesand that curriculum and didactics may be understood as interrelated stages of such recontextualisation.Educational policy and the organisation of pedagogic practice are considered as distinct althoughclosely related practices of ‘curricularisation’ and ‘pedagogisation’. Neo-Bernsteinian social realism impliesa sociological approach by which educational knowledge is recognised as something socially constructed,but irreducible to power struggles in policy arenas. More precisely, curriculum and didactics are notonly matters of extrinsic standpoints. Recontextualising practices may also involve intrinsic features, that is,some kind of relatively generative logics that regulate curriculum design as well as pedagogic practice. In orderto highlight certain implications for both curriculum and didactic theory, the author develops a typology thatis analytically framed by principles of extrinsic relations to and intrinsic relations within curriculum ordidactics.Keywords: curriculum theory; didactics; social realism; recontextualisationCitation: NordSTEP 2015, 1: 27008 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/nstep.v1.27008
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