Working at a Different Level? Curriculum Differentiation in Irish Lower Secondary Education

Autor/in	Smyth, Emer
Titel	Working at a Different Level? Curriculum Differentiation in Irish Lower Secondary Education
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 44 (2018) 1, S.37-55 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
DOI	10.1080/03054985.2018.1409967
Schlagwörter	Secondary School Students; Mixed Methods Research; Middle Class; Working Class; Longitudinal Studies; Academic Standards; Difficulty Level; School Organization; Disadvantaged; Course Selection (Students); Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Access to Education; Equal Education; Social Differences; Decision Making; National Competency Tests; Case Studies; Institutional Characteristics; Administrator Surveys; Administrator Attitudes; Questionnaires; Student Attitudes; Ability Grouping; Labeling (of Persons); Homework; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Gender Differences; Semi Structured Interviews; National Surveys; Principals; Student Surveys; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sekundarschüler; Mittelschicht; Arbeiterklasse; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Schwierigkeitsgrad; School organisation; Schulorganisation; Course selection; Student; Students; Kurswahl; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Sozialer Unterschied; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Fragebogen; Schülerverhalten; Homogene Gruppierung; Niveaugruppierung; Streaming; Labeling-Ansatz; Hausaufgabe; Geschlechterkonflikt; Principal; Schulleiter; Schülerbefragung; Irland
Abstract	Young people in Irish schools are required to choose whether to sit secondary exam subjects at higher or ordinary level. This paper draws on a mixed methods longitudinal study of students in 12 case-study schools to trace the factors influencing take-up of higher level subjects within lower secondary education. School organisation and process are found to shape the extent to which young people actually have a "choice". Streaming practices, which are more prevalent in schools serving socio-economically disadvantaged communities, constrain the degree of choice young people have over their subject levels, with those in lower stream classes usually allocated to ordinary level. Even where schools have mixed ability base classes, schools influence access to higher level subjects. In the middle-class and socially mixed schools, teachers are more likely to expect and encourage all students to take higher level. In contrast, in working-class schools there are sharp declines in the proportion taking higher level subjects as they approach the national exam taken at the end of lower secondary education. Early decisions about not pursuing higher level are found to have long-term consequences. The findings contribute to our understanding of how curriculum differentiation reinforces social class differences in educational pathways. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01