Curriculum Intentions, Student Voice, and Distributed Curriculum Leadership

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Abstract

Students co-constructing their curriculum with peers and teacher is an example of both leadership distributed to students and student voice. By co-constructing their curriculum students have the opportunity to give direction to their learning, improve the relevance of their curriculum and at the same time practice democratic citizenship and distributed leadership principles. This paper offers a curriculum model where teacher and students intentions are brought together, explores practices of shared decision-making, and presents results of this process. It is based on five case studies in schools for lower secondary education (age 12-14) in The Netherlands and Belgium. This paper provides thick descriptions of two of these cases around the questions: “what content and perspectives do students bring to the curriculum?”

Author

• Jeroen Gerard Bron, SLO - The Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development