Education and Social Dynamics
A Multilevel Analysis of Curriculum Change in Turkey
- 284 pages
- English
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Education and Social Dynamics
A Multilevel Analysis of Curriculum Change in Turkey
About this book
Education and Social Dynamics offers a new approach to analyzing curriculum change by investigating the entanglement of education and society in markedly heterogeneous Turkey, which has recently witnessed nation-wide curriculum reforms. While the new curriculum has attempted to homogenize all Turkish primary schools since 2005, Nohl and Somel, drawing on a theoretical differentiation of social entities, reveal how subsequent curricular practices have had to account for the diversity of milieus and organizations in the nation's educational sector, and how inequality and competition run rampant in the standardization efforts. Using expert interviews, group discussions, and other empirical data that compare instructional practices within five distinct schools, the book represents a breakthrough in our understanding of developments in Turkey and their significance for extant theories of curriculum development and reform worldwide. By linking specific case study material from Turkey to intensifying international concerns, it provides an important and relevant global commentary.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Education and Social Change in Turkish History
- 3 Curriculum Making
- 4 Divergent Curricular Practices of Organizational Milieus: Teachers’ Professional Generations
- 5 Instruction and Inequality Between Schools
- 6 The New Curriculum in Competition With Other Institutionalized Expectations
- 7 Conclusion: Change, Education, and Society
- Appendix
- Index