Hughes, Sioned and Lewis, Helen (2020) Tensions in current curriculum reform and the development of teachers’ professional autonomy. Curriculum Journal. ISSN 0958-5176
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Abstract
Current curriculum reform in Wales provides an opportunity for teachers to have greater freedom to develop pedagogical approaches that meet the needs of their pupils. The Successful Futures report (Donaldson, 2015) recommends that teachers should have a greater autonomy in choosing how to deliver the curriculum, and ensuring it is done so in a manner that is meaningful and relevant to their pupils. Strengthening teachers’ agency in relation to pedagogy, however, can sometimes be difficult to achieve because, for example, of perceived issues around workload and accountability. There are many ‘off-the-peg’ or ready-made solutions to the challenges of curriculum reform, and in many cases, schools are responding to such challenges by using ready-made or bespoke approaches. This paper explores the nature of the tensions between the drive to empower professional contributions to curriculum reform, and increase autonomy for teachers, and the existing professional practices. In particular, as an example of the tensions, the paper considers how and why one school selected a commercial mindfulness package to contribute to the newly defined Health and Wellbeing Area of Experience, and the implication of this choice on teacher autonomy and pedagogical practice.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Tensions in current curriculum reform and the development of teachers’ professional autonomy, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.25. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | curriculum reform, teacher agency, pedagogy; professional development |
| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2361 Curriculum |
| Divisions: | Institutes and Academies > Institute of Education and Humanities > Academic Discipline: Teacher Education |
| Depositing User: | Sioned Hughes |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2020 15:20 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Apr 2023 11:42 |
| URI: | https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1151 |
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