Exploring Curriculum 1 – Rural Education: A Place of Curriculum in Tension
Posted on July 26, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Spatial and temporal tensions come to the fore in rural education where the artifice of contemporary education comes more into view—and is more stark in the absence of the urban ubiquity of institutional and administered life. In rural places, educators are seen less able to conform education to its predicates (‘curriculum’ […]
Exploring Curriculum 2 – Curriculum in Place: The Place of Curriculum
Posted on July 26, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Here we begin see curriculum as something views about which are ‘changing dramatically.’ Something radical is coming into view as educational leaders articulate their work as a kind of dislodging of the authority of ‘Curriculum,’ sometimes in quite stark and even dramatic terms! Educational leaders speak in bold terms that are […]
Exploring Curriculum 3 – Curricular Change: The What and the How
Posted on July 26, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Sometimes what something is (especially something as complex as curriculum) can come more into focus by attending to how it changes, how its smooth understanding falters, slips and shifts when its authorities become visible, and thus more plastic or malleable. The means by which such transformation is engaged is discourse, or the surfacing what […]
Exploring Curriculum 4 – Responsive Curriculum & Curricular Sacrifice
Posted on July 26, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Here we move further into the question that has presented itself through this documentation pathway so far: Is there a general orientation toward curriculum being articulated and, if so, what should we call it, and what are its terms? Variously participants articulate here the stakes of curricular innovation in education, on […]
Exploring Curriculum 5 – Accountability, Curriculum & Indetermination
Posted on July 26, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Since risk (of sacrifice, or some deviation from norms) has stolen into the conversation, we deviate the investigation straight into its important questions. This is necessary especially because so often a reactive moment of rejection (on many grounds) can be sufficient to derail or arrest the first flickers of the impetus to change. […]
Exploring Curriculum 6 – Curricular Innovation & Pedagogy
Posted on July 26, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Fortunately, the politics of accountability in this case lead us into richer areas of inquiry—often about inquiry itself—as educational leaders undergo the wages of the changes they have touched off, welcomed and defended. Inquiry has been a central pillar of Growing Innovation, and here we see it playing out in diverse, […]
Exploring Curriculum 7 – Teachers Visualizing Curriculum
Posted on July 26, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Here educators consider what has come of their putting curriculum in question, their setting it aside in favour of generative engagements with the ideas that underwrite it, and their standing for something else or other with their students, colleagues and communities. Limitation, expertise, wellbeing, provisionality, being ‘caught up’ in outcomes or ‘handcuffed’ […]
Exploring Curriculum 8 – Approaches to Curriculum (as Innovation)
Posted on July 26, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Affirmation comes thick here: Of curriculum itself as a site of collaborative inquiry – among teachers, with communities and often in the leadership of students. Clarifying this commitment becomes more important as – as we have seen throughout this pathway – the stakes of not doing so are asserted, often as […]
Exploring Curriculum: Gratias & Finis
Posted on July 26, 2018 by grahamgilesubc We are fortunate that conversation about/as curriculum is a wide and deep river in education at present. In the words of those contributing to this documentation’s conversations, it is crucially connected to what educators, students and communities can be with and through education. Transformation certainly appears in deliberate and shared processes, though also […]
