65.020 - Discursive Curriculum Leadership: Toward a Comparative, International Dialogue on Curriculum Theory and Leadership Research

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

How neoliberal accountability policies have intensified a focus on school leadership, learning results, and curriculum standards varies internationally. These developments ask for renewed approaches to policy as curriculum making and leadership as enacted practice. This symposium a) develops a new international dialogue between the two significant but yet disparate fields e.g. curriculum theory/didaktik and educational leadership studies, by bringing together representatives covering approaches to these fields, especially the Nordic countries/EU and USA, and, finally, b) advances new theoretical developments making use of Bildung and continental, non-affirmative general education theory as well as discursive institutionalism (DI), social philosophy (eg recognition and intersubjectivity), allowing for a coherent theoretical position on cultural, policy, organizational and professional identity dimensions across and within levels.

Sub Unit

• Nordic Educational Research Association - NERA

Chairs

• Michael Uljens, Abo Academy University - Finland

• Rose M. Ylimaki, The University of Arizona

Papers

• The Didaktik/Curriculum Dialogue 15 Years Later - Walter Doyle, The University of Arizona

• Codification of Present Swedish Curriculum Processes: Linking Educational Activities Over Time and Space - Eva Forsberg; Maria Elisabet Nihlfors, Uppsala University; Pia Skott, Uppsala University; Daniel Pettersson, Gävle University College

• Rethinking Authority in Educational Leadership - William F. Pinar, The University of British Columbia

• Comparing School Leadership: A Discursive Approach to School Leadership and Curriculum Policy - Kirsten Sivesind, University of Oslo; Ninni Wahlstrom, Linnaeus University

• Discursive Curriculum and Leadership Theory: Toward a Framework for a Comparative, International Dialogue on Curriculum Theories and Leadership Research - Michael Uljens, Abo Academy University - Finland; Rose M. Ylimaki, The University of Arizona

Discussant

• Tero Henrik Autio, Tallinn University