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Researching the creation of a national curriculum from systems to classrooms
Gerrard, Jessica Albright, James Clarke, David J. Clarke, Doug M. Farrell, Lesley Freebody, Peter Sullivan, Peter
Gerrard, Jessica
Albright, James
Clarke, David J.
Clarke, Doug M.
Farrell, Lesley
Freebody, Peter
Sullivan, Peter
Abstract
Under the auspices of its ‘Education Revolution’, the Federal Labor Government is currently implementing a national curriculum for schools. Representing an important intervention into educational practice and governance, the Australian Curriculum offers a unique research opportunity, providing substantial scope for the examination of the changing systems and school-level practices entailed in large-scale curriculum reform. Research into the Australian Curriculum also presents a valuable opportunity to develop educational research methodologies that attend to the complex and multifaceted processes of curriculum reform, from systems to classrooms. Taking two of the disciplinary towers of modern curricula (English and mathematics) and Australia’s two largest jurisdictions (New South Wales and Victoria) as the focus, this article draws on a three-year Australian Research Council Linkage Project to outline an approach to researching major curriculum reform.
Keywords
curriculum policy, curriculum development, national curriculum, research methodology, english
Date
2013
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Journal article
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Australian Journal of Education
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57
Issue
1
Page Range
60-73
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