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Navarro, Oscar – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
Since the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), neoliberal policies, such as standardized curriculum, high-stakes tests, accountability measures, school choice, charter schools, value-added models and school privatization have pushed social justice teaching to the margins. As a result, many educators endure demoralization, teach…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Justice, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
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Hill, Dominique C. – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
This essay highlights and extends the distinct and critical work of Black Girlhood Studies. With a particular focus on how it differentially engages Black girls and Black girlhood, it takes readers on a journey of rumination through my exploration of coming to understand reliability as taught to me by Black girls and Black girl celebratory spaces.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Poetry, Reflection
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Sabzalian, Leilani – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
In this article I provide a brief overview of feminist standpoint theories, as well as how Native feminist theories complicate and enrich this political and epistemic tradition. Following this overview, I introduce Wayne Au's conception of curricular standpoint theory as a contemporary and productive use of feminist standpoint theory to address…
Descriptors: Feminism, Educational Theories, Curriculum Development, Critical Theory
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Sung, Youl-Kwan; Lee, Yoonmi – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
In this article, we examine the characteristics of a progressive school-change project in South Korea called the "Hyukshin" School (HS) movement. HSs are public schools that are intended to disseminate progressive and democratic practices. We obtained data from interviews with participating teachers, official documents, reports, and…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Progressive Education
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Lim, Leonel; Tan, Michael – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
Drawing upon insights gained from the extant work on culture and pedagogy, this paper explores the ways in which, in an ostensibly meritocratic education system, ideas about students' cultural backgrounds and its relevance for teaching are interpreted, negotiated, and ultimately drawn upon to engage students in the low-progress academic tracks.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Teaching Methods, Cultural Background
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Hung, Cheng-Yu – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
In early 2014, a group of senior high school teachers initiated a series of campaigns to fight against the government's imposition of a revised history and citizenship education curriculum, an unprecedented display of opposition in the history of public schools in Taiwan. They rose above the traditional stereotype of the schoolteacher common…
Descriptors: Social Change, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Takayama, Keita – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
To remove cultural bias is critical for the legitimacy of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as an internationally reliable academic assessment. Since its inception, PISA has made extensive effort to address this issue by putting in place a range of methodological and procedural measures to ensure its test fairness. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Liu, Shuning – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
Since 2010, the number of urban Chinese high-school students applying to US universities has rapidly grown. Many of these students have chosen emerging international curriculum programs established by elite public high schools in China. These programs prepare wealthy Chinese students for the US college application process by exposing them to an…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, High School Students, Marketing, Access to Education
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Koh, Aaron – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
The implementation of moral and national education (MNE) in Hong Kong came to a stand-still when in 2012 anti-MNE student protests triumphantly saw it being shelved. Many perceived MNE as indoctrination and politically motivated by the leadership. Five years have gone by since the demise of the MNE. Ostensibly, the struggle for hegemonic control…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Power Structure, Citizenship Education, News Reporting
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Huaman, Elizabeth Sumida – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
This article highlights core values linked with Indigenous ways of conceptualizing community and education. In doing so, this work explores Indigenous tensions with restrictive historical policies that have resulted in reconciliation with mainstream education, local perceptions of the need for adaptation, and the convergence of multiple…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Students, Indigenous Knowledge, Values
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Schaefli, Laura M.; Godlewska, Anne M. C.; Rose, John – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
This article investigates the portrayal of colonialism and Indigenous peoples in curricula and textbooks in the province of Ontario, Canada. The analysis is focused on the curricular documents and texts that constituted Ontario's social studies and Canadian and World Studies stream between 2003 and 2015, which have informed the understanding of a…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Indigenous Populations, Textbooks, Content Analysis
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Petrie, Gina Mikel; Darragh, Janine J. – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
This exploratory qualitative study intended to deepen understandings of learners' desires for English, the images they associate with the English language, and what these might suggest for an English curriculum. To do so, the study investigated the perspectives of southwestern Nicaraguan residents about the growing presence of English and English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation
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Nxumalo, Fikile; Vintimilla, Cristina D.; Nelson, Narda – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
In this article, the authors critically and generatively encounter emergent curriculum, drawing from their experiences working as pedagogistas in three different early childhood education centres in Western Canada. The intent is to engage with the concept of emergence as that which can bring ethical and political engagements with curriculum and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, Curriculum
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Baker, Bernadette – Curriculum Inquiry, 2017
The demand for evidence in particular forms shapes contemporary educational policy, curriculum studies' debates over the politics of knowledge "versus" wisdom, and research into classroom practice. This paper provides a genealogical trace that examines the arbitrary and historical linkage of discourses of vision (especially when vision…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Educational Research, Educational Policy, Evidence
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Theodorou, Eleni; Philippou, Stavroula; Kontovourki, Stavroula – Curriculum Inquiry, 2017
Against the background of a curriculum change in the Republic of Cyprus, this study focuses on teachers who volunteered to work along with academics and ministry officials in subject-area curriculum review committees to develop official curriculum texts. Teachers' participation in these committees was construed in official rhetoric as a means to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Elementary School Teachers, Curriculum Development
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