Curriculum policy reform in an era of technical accountability. 'fixing' curriculum, teachers and students in English schools.

Autor/in	Winter, Christine
Titel	Curriculum policy reform in an era of technical accountability. 'fixing' curriculum, teachers and students in English schools.
Quelle	In: Journal of curriculum studies, 49 (2017) 1, S. 55-74Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0272; 1366-5839
DOI	10.1080/00220272.2016.1205138
Schlagwörter	Curriculum; Ethik; Politik; Curriculum; Ethik; Politik
Abstract	Drawing on a Levinasian ethical perspective, the argument driving this paper is that the technical accountability movement currently dominating the educational system in England is less than adequate because it overlooks educators' responsibility for ethical relations in responding to difference in respect of the other. Curriculum policy makes a significant contribution to the technical accountability culture through complicity in performativity, high-stakes testing and datafication, at the same time as constituting student and teacher subjectivities. I present two different conceptualizations of subjectivity and education, before engaging these in the analysis of data arising from an empirical study which investigated teachers' and stakeholders' experiences of curriculum policy reform in 'disadvantaged' English schools. The study's findings demonstrate how a prescribed programme of technical curriculum regulation attempts to 'fix' or mend educational problems by 'fixing' or prescribing educational solutions. This not only denies ethical professional relations between students, teachers and parents, but also deflects responsibility for educational success from government to teachers and hastens the move from public to private educational provision. Complying with prescribed curriculum policy requirements shifts attention from broad philosophical and ethical questions about educational purpose as well as conferring a violence by assuming control over student and teacher subjectivities.
Erfasst von	IPN - Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik an der Universität Kiel
Update	2017/2