Theorising Variation in Engagement in Professional and Curriculum Development: Performativity, Capital, Systems and Purpose

Autor/inn/en	Boylan, Mark; Adams, Gill; Coldwell, Mike; Willis, Ben; Demack, Sean
Titel	Theorising Variation in Engagement in Professional and Curriculum Development: Performativity, Capital, Systems and Purpose
Quelle	In: Review of Education, 6 (2018) 3, S.360-407 (48 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Boylan, Mark) ORCID (Coldwell, Mike)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2049-6613
DOI	10.1002/rev3.3140
Schlagwörter	Curriculum Development; Faculty Development; Participation; Institutional Characteristics; Alignment (Education); Professional Continuing Education; Social Theories; Neoliberalism; Mathematics Curriculum; Mathematics Education; Teacher Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Teilnahme; Berufsfeldbezogener Unterricht; Weiterbildung; Gesellschaftstheorie; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Mathematische Bildung
Abstract	Increasingly, policymakers seek to improve the quality of teaching through curriculum innovations and continuing professional development (CPD) programmes. However, engagement by schools and teachers varies owing to mediating influences of neoliberal policies. In this article, we contribute to understanding how these tendencies affect participation. Problematising the notion of context, we examine ways in which systemic influences interacted with participation in a government-funded mathematics professional and curriculum development programme and also with participants' purposes. A three-level clustered Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) and an implementation and process evaluation were augmented by in-depth case studies, cross-case analysis and the application of theoretical constructs to interpret findings. Theories of capital, figured worlds and systemic coupling are utilised to theorise the context. Different levels of engagement are partly explainable by: the interaction of schools' relative systemic advantage and disadvantage; their orientation and coupling to performativity regimes; and the alignment or dissonance between continuing professional development or change programmes and the pedagogical and CPD cultures and purposes of the 'actors' (schools, departments and teachers). Performativity concerns restricted what were considered legitimate outcomes in some case study schools. This depended on teachers and schools' positioning in terms of relative degrees of systemic privilege or disadvantage--understood as economic, cultural, social and symbolic capital--and also in terms of figured worlds and system coupling. The case studies provide insights into how collaborative professional learning can be fostered more productively. Methodologically, we demonstrate the power of combining methodologies and applying explanatory social theory to augment quasi-experimental paradigms. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01