'Successful Futures' for All in Wales? The Challenges of Curriculum Reform for Addressing Educational Inequalities

Autor/inn/en	Power, Sally; Newton, Nigel; Taylor, Chris
Titel	'Successful Futures' for All in Wales? The Challenges of Curriculum Reform for Addressing Educational Inequalities
Quelle	In: Curriculum Journal, 31 (2020) 2, S.317-333 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Power, Sally) ORCID (Newton, Nigel) ORCID (Taylor, Chris)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0958-5176
DOI	10.1002/curj.39
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Curriculum Development; Equal Education; Transformative Learning; Student Centered Learning; Curriculum Implementation; Barriers; National Curriculum; Success; Futures (of Society); Primary Education; Disadvantaged Youth; Investment; Accountability; United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Pädagogische Transformation; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Erfolg; Future; Society; Zukunft; Primarbereich; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Investments; Geldanlage; Investiton; Verantwortung
Abstract	This paper focuses on the implications of the transformative student-centred curriculum being developed in Wales for tackling educational inequalities. Informed by long-standing debates within the sociology of education about the role of school knowledge in social and cultural reproduction, our research outlines some of the challenges that those implementing the new Curriculum for Wales need to address if it is to offer 'successful futures' for all. Drawing on interview and survey data from those schools tasked with developing the new curriculum, and the evaluation of a very similar curriculum reform for early years and primary education in Wales, we outline the demands the new curriculum will place on material and human resources and the risks of increasing flexibility. We argue that there will need to be significant investment and some form of external accountability to ensure that disadvantaged students receive a curriculum experience that opens up avenues to 'powerful knowledge'. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01