Session Information
23 SES 05A, The Changing Forms of Knowledge in Contemporary Curriculum Reconfigurations (Part 1)
Symposium to be continued in 23 SES 6A Joint session with nw 13
Time:
2008-09-11
08:30-10:00
Room:
B1 116
Chair:
Lyn Yates
Contribution
This paper analyses reforms and experiments of Swedish up¬per secondary education over a 40-year period, add¬ressing and/or affecting curriculum organisation and contents. Major trends, conflicting tendencies and driving forces are analysed, with a focus on the develop¬ment of the 1990s and 2000s. Themes include:
- comprehensiveness and late specialisation as a general theme of the reforms of the late 1960s and the early 1990s, versus demands on clearer division between voca¬tional preparation and apprenticeship training and academic preparation
- universalism and standardisation – a national core of knowledge and contents common to all students – versus local fragmentation and individual programmes and projects
- education of flexible and responsible workers and citizens, e.g. by introducing project/ thematic work and cross-disciplinary teacher teams versus old and new demands of strong classification between school subjects, teacher categories and time units
- marketisation of upper secondary education and its curriculum in the 1990s and 2000s, reflected e.g. in a motley offering of courses, programs and profiles at upper secondary level and the promotion of enterprising as part of the curriculum.
The paper emanates from a research project Upper-secondary school as a marketplace, funded by the Swedish Research Council.
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