Journal articles on the topic 'Decontextualised curriculum'

This article aims to discuss the relationship between language policy, language-in-education policy and the foreign language teaching-learning process. In so doing, a critical review of relevant literature is offered with the purpose to clarify how the areas of enquiry related to language and language-in-education policymaking and enactment are intertwined to the practicalities of foreign language curriculum development and syllabus design. Such connection is represented by the politically-, ideologically- and socioculturally-driven choices of policymakers and policy enactors, as well as their influence on everyday foreign language practice. Criticality and authorship are advocated throughout this article as strategies on which teachers and students should rely in order to challenge predetermined and/or decontextualised directives concerning the foreign language teaching-learning process.

This article consists as a theoretical essay on the thematic of curriculum and its unfolding in the reality of riverside schools. In the first instance, it aims to elucidate conceptualissues about curriculum and points out the mismatches between school contents that are defined arbitrarily and become decontextualized for the educational reality of the riverside schools.Then, some social aspects are brought in regarding the riverside schools, aiming to characterize this reality to the reader, as well as to present some of the social aspects that surround this context.It is argued that school curricula do not dialogue with the reality of the riverside communities, resulting in innocuouseducational actions, devoid of meaning and distant of deep social transformations.

This paper examines technological curricula in terms of their potential to be realized in occupational roles. The more the curriculum is oriented towards roles (as opposed to skills or pure knowledge), the greater the probability that it will be articulated in the labour market and the greater its efficacy and legitimacy. The concept of role has been analytically divided into six components: value commitment, normative, communicative, interactive, role intelligence and proficiency components. Theoretically, the more components are present in a given curriculum, the higher the probability that a given occupational role will be effectively articulated. However, their presence is a necessary but insufficient condition for effective role performance; their integration is of equal, if not greater importance, and the latter is meaningful only when the social context of the articulation is taken into account. It was found that the role components do not appear in a balanced manner in technological curricula investigated in Israel, and some hardly receive any attention. Those that are present are weakly linked to actual economic contexts. Thus, it appears that students in technological education, are socialized to minimal role articulation; ie, they are more likely to implement decontextualized tasks than to assume integral occupational roles.

This paper tries to excavate the perceptions, experiences and non/cooperation of curriculum development officers and district education officers in culturally non/responsive pedagogical approaches of private schools in Nepal. This paper tries to decontextualize and culturally non responsive education cannot address the pedagogical and socio cultural requirements of the learners and multicultural societies. This research is oriented to fundamental traits of interpretivism, criticalism and postmodernism so that the varying and complicated features of culture and culturally responsive pedagogy would be met. Therefore, it would be a heuristics of multi-paradigmatic research. In this paper I have explored the views, experiences and perceptions of responsible government officials working in curriculum designing and implementation in making our educational endeavors culturally responsive. I have tried to delve into 'world of duty' to reveal how result oriented they are. Shifting of responsibilities and lack of professionalism has been found to be the major stumbling blocks.

Research frequently demonstrates that coaches learn by reflecting on practical coaching experience (Gilbert & Trudel, 2001), hence both reflection and experience have been identified as essential elements of coach education (Cushion, Armour, & Jones, 2003). The case being studied was a United Kingdom (UK) National Governing Body (NGB) in the process of developing a coach education program. The purpose of this study was to empirically explore the use of reflection as a conceptual underpinning to connect and understand coach education, theory, and practice. Findings suggest that the curriculum could promote reflective practice, albeit in a largely decontextualized learning environment. Future research should attempt to directly measure, in situ, the impact of such courses on coaching knowledge and coaching practice.

It has been argued recently that the language of the classroom is more decontextualized ("bookish" language) than the language of normal, everyday conversation. Those children who have had an early exposure to bookish language are better equipped, it seems, to handle the language of the school. For the ESL learners the problems are two-fold: they have to learn a new language and they have to learn the language of school. In order to bridge the gap between the home language and the language of the school, an experiment in which reading materials were introduced into a print-deficient environment will be discussed. The results of this experiment indicate that the provision of books and regular reading in the school curriculum not only improves proficiency in the second language but also has a positive effect on academic achievement in other subjects.

In the context of global curriculum transformation and from a global South perspective, this article explores the imposed and self-created borders that continue to “discipline” us into reproducing scholarly processes, practices, and traditions that privilege dominant forms of knowledge making and knowing in teaching and learning. Drawing on Africa as a case study to explore a framework for thinking outside borders, the author invites the reader to embrace a global social imagination that disrupts and transcends the epistemic, social, and cultural borders designed to produce knowledge that is ahistorical and decontextualized. Using a social mapping of how we thrive on neatly delineated borders that detach the known from the knower by marginalizing or delegitimizing knowledges of the Other, this article, which draws on an earlier version presented as a keynote at the 16th annual conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, presents a theory of change geared toward borderless, decolonized, socially just, and inclusive pedagogy and scholarship.

Abstract In order to cultivate the kind of technology literacy in our students called for by leaders in the field, it must simultaneously be cultivated in our teachers. While the literature in the field of English education demonstrates the efficacy of computer technology in writing instruction and addresses its impact on the evolving definition of literacy in the 21st century, it does not provide measured directions for how English teachers might develop technology literacy themselves or specific plans for how they might begin to critically assess the potential that technology might hold for them in enhancing instruction. This article presents a pedagogical framework encompassing the necessary critical mindset in which teachers of the English language arts can begin to conceive their own "best practices" with technology—a framework that is based upon their needs, goals, students, and classrooms, rather than the external pressure to fit random and often decontextualized technology applications into an already complex and full curriculum. To maximize technology's benefits, educators must develop a heightened, critical view of technology to determine its potential for the classroom.

The teaching and acquisition of pragmatics in second and foreign language learning contexts has been traditionally reduced to coursebooks’ decontextualized dialogue samples and static images with almost no effects on learners’ communicative competence. This paper outlines rationale on the teaching of pragmatics since it has become of essential importance as specified in different language proficiency paradigms i.e. the CEFR. Thus, attention is centered on the use of audiovisual materials as a rich input source used for that aim. With this in mind, a review of studies appraising for the validity of language used in audiovisual genres is provided. In addition, an overview of its applicability and effects as a part of the general education curricula and in second and foreign language instruction is presented. Results from the studies reviewed reported overall advantageous outcomes when using this type of input for different instructional aims and more specifically with pragmatics’ acquisition purposes.

The teaching and acquisition of pragmatics in second and foreign language learning contexts has been traditionally reduced to coursebooks’ decontextualized dialogue samples and static images with almost no effects on learners’ communicative competence. This paper outlines rationale on the teaching of pragmatics since it has become of essential importance as specified in different language proficiency paradigms i.e. the CEFR. Thus, attention is centered on the use of audiovisual materials as a rich input source used for that aim. With this in mind, a review of studies appraising for the validity of language used in audiovisual genres is provided. In addition, an overview of its applicability and effects as a part of the general education curricula and in second and foreign language instruction is presented. Results from the studies reviewed reported overall advantageous outcomes when using this type of input for different instructional aims and more specifically with pragmatics’ acquisition purposes.

This ethnographic study examined the (un)intended 1 consequences of increased privatization of Early Childhood Education (ECE) in Nepal and Kenya. Qualitative data showed overreliance on high-stakes standardized tests increased competition for ‘good grades or examination scores’, thus (un)intentionally creating ideal conditions for proliferation of for-profit private schools that predominantly taught culturally decontextualized education at all levels of schooling. Private schools in both countries served high-income families and children, while low-income families and children did not have access to ECE or attended government and not-for-profit programmes. Rather than bridging the gap between low and high-income families, these educational spaces influenced existing social divisions and inequalities. Therefore, this study concluded that private schools in Nepal and Kenya function like businesses, which (un)intentionally promoted educational injustice 2 against children from low-income families. Consequently, authors recommend enactment of new educational policies and practices that promote culturally contextualized curricula in ECE programmes.

The enchantment by Botany teaching represents not an ordinary feeling among students, and even Biology teachers, at every educational level. Researches throughout the Botany teaching area point to a fragmented, decontextualized, quite theoretical and unattractive process. Therefore, in recent years, Botany has changed from a beloved science into a neglected science because of the botanical blindness that has been established in the general population. Thus, the present work aims to present a panorama of the academic researches about Botany teaching in Brazil. It was carried out of theses, dissertations, and articles published from 2002 to 2017. This period was intentionally selected as it fits the establishment of the Guidelines Curriculum for Biological Sciences courses. In parallel, the pursuit of researches on Botany teaching in other countries was also carried out, to verify the international scenario. The investigations were developed in CAPES, IBICT, and SCIELO portals, based on previously defined descriptors. The results, published in Brazil and in other countries, point out the lack of information and a valorization crisis of the scientific knowledge in the process of Botany teaching, both in basic and higher education. This finding gains strength especially when we check the publications of the Biological Sciences - Licentiate courses. These should present deep concerns with the process of teaching to teach, as the teaching roots are similar to the way we receive and comprehend it, which seems the reason Botany teaching ends up being relegated when compared to other areas of knowledge.

Este trabalho apresenta reflexões acerca dos desafios da implementação da Educação do Campo em Sumidouro – RJ, um município essencialmente agrícola, cuja produção está fortemente atrelada ao capital industrial e a educação oferecida pelas escolas está descontextualizada com as necessidades locais. A metodologia empregada se baseou em revisão bibliográfica, análise documental e observação participante. Foi identificado que o Plano Municipal de Educação de Sumidouro faz poucas referências à realidade rural dos educandos, não contemplando grande parte dos anseios específicos deste público. Este fato vai de encontro aos problemas socioambientais observados no município, como o desgaste progressivo dos solos, a contaminação dos recursos hídricos, o endividamento dos produtores rurais e os altos níveis de evasão escolar a partir do segundo segmento do ensino fundamental, que colocam Sumidouro entre os piores IDHs do estado. Desta forma, concluiu-se que é necessário viabilizar a Educação do Campo aplicada ao Ensino fundamental em Sumidouro. Neste sentido, é preciso aprender com o exemplo do CEFFA de Nova Friburgo e se antever a pressão dos interesses econômicos locais e do próprio MEC quanto à imposição de uma base curricular comum, descontextualizada com os princípios da Educação do Campo. Palavras-chave: Educação do Campo, Agricultura Familiar, Agricultura Capitalista, Movimentos Sociais, Sumidouro. The challenges of Rural Education against Agribusiness: a case study in Sumidouro - RJ ABSTRACT. This paper presents reflections about the challenges of implementing Rural Education in Sumidouro - RJ, an essentially agricultural municipality whose production is strongly linked to industrial capital and the education offered by schools is out of context with local needs. The methodology used was based on bibliographic review, documentary analysis and participant observation. It was identified that the Municipal Plan of Education of Sumidouro makes few references to the rural reality of the students, not contemplating much of the specific yearnings of this public. This fact is in line with the socio-environmental problems observed in the municipality, such as progressive soil erosion, contamination of water resources, rural producers' indebtedness and high levels of school dropout from the second elementary school segment, which makes Sumidouro one of the worst HDIs in the state. Therefore, it was concluded that it is necessary to prioritize Rural Education applied to Sumidouro Elementary School. Thus, it is necessary to learn from the example of the CEFFA in Nova Friburgo and to prevent the pressure of local economic interests and the MEC itself regarding the imposition of a common curricular basis, decontextualized with the principles of Rural Education. Keywords: Rural Education, Family Farming, Capitalist Agriculture, Social Movements, Sumidouro. Los desafíos de la Educación del Campo frente al Agribusiness: un estudio de caso en Sumidouro - RJ RESUMEN. Este trabajo presenta reflexiones acerca de los desafíos de la implementación de la Educación del Campo en Sumidouro - RJ, un municipio esencialmente agrícola, cuya producción está fuertemente ligada al capital industrial y la educación ofrecida por las escuelas está descontextualizada con las necesidades locales. La metodología empleada se basó en revisión bibliográfica, análisis documental y observación participante. Se identificó que el Plan Municipal de Educación de Sumidouro hace pocas referencias a la realidad rural de los educandos, no contemplando gran parte de los anhelos específicos de este público. Este hecho está en línea con los problemas socioambientales observados en el municipio, como la erosión progresiva del suelo, la contaminación de los recursos hídricos, el endeudamiento de los productores rurales y los altos niveles de deserción escolar en el segundo segmento de escuelas primarias, lo que convierte a Sumidouro en el peor IDH del estado. De esta manera, se concluyó que es necesario hacer factible la Educación del Campo aplicada a la enseñanza primaria en Sumidouro. En este sentido, es necesario aprender del ejemplo de CEFFA en Nova Friburgo y evitar la presión de los intereses económicos locales y del propio MEC con respecto a la imposición de una base curricular común, descontextualizada con los principios de la Educación del Campo. Palabras clave: Educación del Campo, Agricultura familiar, Agricultura Capitalista, Movimientos Sociales, Sumidouro.

ResumoNo Ensino Médio, é fácil observar os alunos desmotivados. Os fatores para tal são vários, porém, no contexto educacional, podemos citar os conteúdos curriculares descontextualizados e a falta de “diálogo” entre as disciplinas escolares. Esta realidade atinge diretamente a compreensão e a aprendizagem dos adolescentes, visto que estes não relacionam as ciências ao contexto histórico, gerando conceitos e concepções errôneas no que tange o espaço-tempo e as descobertas científicas. Neste trabalho buscou-se promover uma relação mais tênue entre Ciências: Química e a História: Dinastia Tudor, para compreensão das descobertas químicas e alquímicas desenvolvidos neste período tão importante da Idade Moderna. Esse entrelaçar das disciplinas visou promover para os alunos do Ensino Médio uma maior valorização deste momento histórico e para os universitários visou envolvê-los na evolução da descoberta das ciências e da Química. A História da Ciência se pautou no viés da epistemologia, historiografia e ciências e sociedade e buscou-se um diálogo interdisciplinar em prol de um conhecimento mais consolidado e significativo. Observou-se ao final da execução deste trabalho que a busca literária foi difícil, pois as fontes primárias e secundárias focam-se muito no contexto histórico ou no científico, não fazendo uma interface entre ambos, e no que concernem as discussões em sala de aula desta temática com as mídias cinematográficas observou-se grande participação dos alunos e maior entendimento da importância das descobertas científicas desta Dinastia, uma vez que algumas perduram até os dias atuais, porém acredita-se que deveria ter mais tempo pra explorar essa interação entre as áreas.Palavras-chave: Dinastia; Ciências; Mídias.AbstractIn high school, it is easy to observe students with no motivation. The factors for this are several, however, in the educational context, we can mention the decontextualized curricular contents and the lack of “dialogue” between school subjects. This reality directly affects the understanding and learning of adolescents, since they do not relate science to the historical context, generating misconceptions and concepts regarding space-time and scientific discoveries. In this work we sought to promote a more tenuous relationship between Sciences: Chemistry and History: Tudor Dynasty, to understand the chemical and alchemical discoveries developed in this very important period of the Modern Age. This intertwining of the disciplines aimed to promote for High School students a greater appreciation of this historical moment and for university students it aimed to involve them in the evolution of the discovery of science and Chemistry. The History of Science was guided by the epistemology, historiography and sciences and society bias and an interdisciplinary dialogue was sought in favor of a more consolidated and meaningful knowledge. It was observed at the end of the execution of this work that the literary search was difficult, since the primary and secondary sources focus a lot on the historical or scientific context, not making an interface between both, and with regard to the discussions in the classroom of this theme with the cinematographic media there was a great participation of the students and a greater understanding of the importance of the scientific discoveries of this Dynasty, since some persist until the present days, however it is believed that there should be more time to explore this interaction between the areas. Keywords: Dynasty; Sciences; Media.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse and compare four high school history curriculum documents with regard to how they select, sequence and make clear the progression of history knowledge. Thereafter the aim is to establish if there are any recontextualising principles that can be drawn from the comparison. The paper analyses secondary school curriculum documents from South Africa, Canada (British Columbia), Singapore and Kenya. A review of the history education literature indicates that the following concepts are productive when analysing history curriculum documents: the purpose of school history, the knowledge structure of the discipline and the distinction between substantive and procedural knowledge (or first and second order concepts) in history. These concepts thus informed a content analysis of the curriculum documents. The findings show that a memory history approach informs the Kenyan curriculum, while South Africa, Singapore and British Columbia take a disciplinary history approach. This informs the depth and breadth of the substantive knowledge that is selected, and highlights the first recontextualising principle, which is space. Curriculum designers make selections about the extent to which the history content is local, regional, national or international. The second principle is chronology, which is the key organising principle for the sequencing of content in all four curricula. The third principle relates to the conceptual progression of the substantive concepts, which is the extent to which there is progression from generic concepts, to unique, contextualised historical concepts to universal decontextualised historical concepts. The fourth principle is the extent to which the curricula choose to develop procedural knowledge in the discipline. It is not clear how disciplinary procedural knowledge finds progression in these four curricula. Research has been done on progression in historical thinking in classrooms, but this is not reflected in these curriculum documents, which do not map progression in procedural knowledge clearly.

Surveying the last two centuries, one might easily deduce the purpose of education has been to induct, or rather indoctrinate, students into a culture’s dominant ontology and epistemology. In modern Western culture’s prevailing education systems, this usually means atomistic, dualistic, and competitive ways of being and disembodied, decontextualized and dispassionate ways of knowing that focus on passively acquiring abstracted and fragmented knowledge. Given our current predicament of human alienation and ecological crisis, we suggest a new worldview is needed to reconceptualize human ways of living and being in, indeed valuing, our place within the ecosphere. In contrast to the modernist, mechanistic world view, which deems the natural world detached, valueless, and available for human exploitation, an ecological worldview advocates a human sense of self as interconnected and unified with the natural world. Moved by the work of philosophers, eco-theorists and eco-educators, this paper explores the role of the more-than-human world in pedagogical and curricular processes and practices that align more closely with an ecological worldview. Our proposed praxis of ecological education was introduced and put into action with a group of educators at the Education With/Out Borders (EWOB) symposium at Sasamat, British Columbia, in October, 2008. An overview of the exercise and highlights from the group’s concluding discussion of the experience are also presented.

AbstractIn this paper, we attempt to show some consequences of bringing the body back into higher education, through the use of performing arts in the curricular context of scientific programs. We start by arguing that dominant traditions in higher education reproduced the mind-body dualism that shaped the social matrix of meanings on knowledge transmission. We highlight the limits of the modern disembodied and decontextualized reason and suggest that, considering the students’ and teachers’ bodies as non-relevant aspects, or even obstacles, leads to the invisibilization of fundamental aspects involved in teaching and learning processes. We thus conducted a study, from a socio-cultural perspective, in which we analyse the emerging matrix of meanings given to the body and bodily engagement by students, through a systematic qualitative analysis of 47 personal diaries. We structured the results and the discussion around five interpretative axes: (1) the production of diaries enables historicization, while the richness of bodily experience expands the boundaries of diaries into non-textual modalities; (2) curricular context modulates the emergent meanings of the body; (3) physical and symbolic spaces guide the matrix of bodily meanings; (4) the bodily dimension of the courses facilitates the emergence of an emotional dimension to get in touch with others and to register one's own emotional experiences; and (5) the body functions as a condition for biographical continuity. These axes are discussed under the light of the general process of consciousness-raising and resignification of the situated body in the educational practice.

Research supports the premise that adult language and literacy instruction should build on prior linguistic knowledge and the lived experiences of the students. Despite these widely held tenets, classroom practices often do not reflect these ideals, instead providing learning opportunities that are decontextualized and isolated from the students’ lives. Drawing on 18 months of qualitative data and based on principles of participatory action research, this ethnographic case study of a peer-taught, prison-based, adult language and literacy program, situated in a state-run, medium security prison in the Midwest of the United States, focuses on the role language ideologies played in shaping classroom practices and the marginalization of both students and instructors. This study found that language ideologies contributed to a curricularized approach to language and literacy instruction focused on teaching discrete linguistic features and lexical items. This curricularization of language positioned students as linguistically deficient and shaped deficit perspectives of the students in the classroom. Additionally, the curricularized approach in conjunction with racialized understandings of “native speakerism” marginalized instructors through influencing who was perceived as a viable language model in the classroom. These findings emphasize the need to move away from reified understandings of language and build on the situated ways students use language. Additionally, moving toward a curriculum focused on situated language practices provides opportunities for students and instructors to critically examine issues of power and privilege related to language.

Resumo: Educação das Relações Étnico-Raciais pressupõe a inclusão da história e cultura dos diferentes grupos étnico-raciais no currículo escolar, com especial atenção ao contexto onde a escola está inserida e aos grupos historicamente estigmatizados. O objetivo do artigo é refletir e contribuir com a discussão acerca da importância de uma educação que contemple a diversidade étnica e cultural do povo brasileiro e da humanidade. Acreditamos que fazer valer as leis 10.639/03 e 11.645/08, suas respectivas diretrizes curriculares nacionais e as políticas educacionais afirmativas, continua sendo um dos maiores desafios no fazer e no pensar educacional dos brasileiros. Passado mais de uma década da criação da lei 10.639 percebe-se que a maioria das escolas brasileiras ainda não a implementou de fato, existindo apenas ações pontuais, superficiais, descontextualizadas e sem continuidade, em datas como 13 de maio e 20 de novembro. No caso da lei 11.645 em datas como 19 de abril e dia do folclore. Palavras-chave: Educação das Relações Étnico-Raciais. Leis 10.639 e 11.645. História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira e Indígena. EDUCATION FOR ETHNIC-RACIAL RELATIONS Abstract: Education of Racial-Ethnic Relations requires the inclusion of the history and culture of different ethnic and racial groups in the school curriculum, with special attention to the context in which the school is embedded and historically stigmatized groups. The objective of this article is to reflect and contribute to the discussion about the importance of an education that includes ethnic and cultural diversity of the Brazilian people and humanity. We believe that enforcing the laws 10.639/03 and 11.645/08, their national curriculum guidelines and affirmative educational policies, remains one of the greatest challenges in making and thinking of Brazilian education. Spent over a decade creating the law 10,639 one realizes that most Brazilian schools have not implemented it in fact, with only occasional, superficial, decontextualized and discontinuous actions on dates as May 13 and November 20. In the case of the law 11.645 on dates as April 19 and day of folklore. Keywords: Education of Racial-Ethnic Relations. Laws 10,639 and 11,645. History and Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous.