Deliberative Curriculum Innovation as Boundary Crossing

• In Event: 58.083 - Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: 58.083-16 - Theory in Action: An Exploration of Self and Boundaries

Abstract

Curriculum innovation has become increasingly mandated and controlled by accountability measures. The alternative to be analysed here is deliberative innovation as collaborative process. It leads to the research question about how deliberative settings for eliciting pedagogical innovation beyond boundaries, was realized in practice and with what kind of effects. As a basis for analysis we used evidences from the European project XXXX. The setting for each case study took into account the boundary crossing elements in activity theory (Engeström, 2001): subjects from different communities, sharing meaning about objects, using mediating artefacts and rules. The ten national projects used different collaborative settings shaping schools' norms, values and practices for innovation in teaching and teacher professional development.

Author

• Manfred Lang, IPN - Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education