This lecture is part of the 10th Nordic Curriculum Theory Conference. The lecture is open to everyone – conference participants and others. No registration is required. Welcome!
About the lecture
The national core curriculum is renewed in Finland approximately every ten years, the most recent renewal being in 2014 (Finnish National Agency for Education 2014).
Curriculum making in the reform may be referred to as participatory relying on shared sense-making as a tool for transformative learning throughout the educational system. The approach emphasizes interpreting, adapting, and transforming policy messages in an interactive process that is influenced by participants’ cognitive efforts whilst simultaneously embedded in social and structural conditions.
To be successful participatory reform should support teachers’ agency in sense-making. The written curriculum document itself should communicate the big picture clearly and create sufficient alignment between meta-goals of the curriculum and changes they imply to classroom practices. However, focus should not be only on what is changing but also on how the change can be brought about. Here teacher agency is in crucial role.
Learn more about Research Director Tiina Soini-Ikonen (University of Tampere)
- Commentary: Gunn Elisabeth Søreide (University of Bergen).
- Chair: Ruth Jensen (University of Oslo).
Organisers
This guest lecture is held as part of the 10th Nordic Curriculum Theory Conference. The conference is organised by the research group Curriculum, leadership and educational governance (CLEG) at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo.
Berit Karseth, Jeffrey Hall, Kirsten Sivesind, Ragnhild Meland and Ruth Jensen are in the organising committee.
Questions can be directed to Berit Karseth.