Prioritizing social and moral learning amid conservative curriculum trends. Spaces of possibility.

Autor/in	Keddie, Amanda
Titel	Prioritizing social and moral learning amid conservative curriculum trends. Spaces of possibility.
Quelle	In: Journal of curriculum studies, 47 (2015) 3, S. 355-373Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0272; 1366-5839
DOI	10.1080/00220272.2014.941410
Schlagwörter	Schulbesuch; Soziales Lernen; Curriculum; Ethisches Lernen
Abstract	Conservative trends across western schooling contexts are signalling an explicit devaluing of social and moral learning within their official curriculum mandates. These mandates are increasingly privileging the 'academic rigour' of traditional subject disciplines. This paper draws on interview and observation data from a case study of a large and highly diverse English secondary school to explore this school's prioritizing of social and moral learning. Such prioritizing is supported at this school by its 'Academy' status-which in the English context allows schools a measure of freedom over curriculum as part of broader government moves to increase school autonomy. The paper's focus is on how these conservative trends are understood and disrupted to support a critical view of existing curriculum and a desire to modify and re-shape it to support more relevant and connected learning for students. The paper describes particular examples of practice at the school in the areas of Citizenship and Religious Education to illustrate this approach. Engaging with social and moral learning along these lines is argued as productive in working within and against the constraints of current conservative curriculum priorities.
Erfasst von	IPN - Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik an der Universität Kiel
Update	2015/3