Teachers, Learners and Edu-Business Co-Constructing Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: An Insider’s Lens in Cross-Phase Longitudinal Research

This paper draws on a five-component, large-scale, longitudinal and cross-phase mathematics curriculum implementation study in England from the vantage point of an insider to overlapping school, policy and edu-business actor communities. It probed those actors’ emergent co-interpretation of, and res...

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Main Author: Jennie Golding
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Published: MDPI AG 2024-11-01
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description This paper draws on a five-component, large-scale, longitudinal and cross-phase mathematics curriculum implementation study in England from the vantage point of an insider to overlapping school, policy and edu-business actor communities. It probed those actors’ emergent co-interpretation of, and response to, a new mathematics curriculum in England, analysing the ways in which edu-businesses, teachers and learners mediate mathematics curriculum policy documents through their own interpretations and schema. The combination of common ‘classroom-close’ research tools supported synergies of cross-phase and longitudinal lenses. The paper contributes an enhanced conceptualisation of inter-actor influence, a theorisation of learner as policy actor, and an understanding of constraints on mathematics policy-driven change at teacher and learner levels, including challenges to communication of intended curriculum policy, across phases of schooling. The approach appears fruitful for analysis of the experience and mediation of mathematics curriculum policy by key policy actors.
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spelling doaj-art-a64071e7d47549d3b2167f45330e360c2024-12-27T14:22:30ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022024-11-011412132210.3390/educsci14121322Teachers, Learners and Edu-Business Co-Constructing Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: An Insider’s Lens in Cross-Phase Longitudinal ResearchJennie Golding0Institute of Education, University College London, London WC1H 0AL, UKThis paper draws on a five-component, large-scale, longitudinal and cross-phase mathematics curriculum implementation study in England from the vantage point of an insider to overlapping school, policy and edu-business actor communities. It probed those actors’ emergent co-interpretation of, and response to, a new mathematics curriculum in England, analysing the ways in which edu-businesses, teachers and learners mediate mathematics curriculum policy documents through their own interpretations and schema. The combination of common ‘classroom-close’ research tools supported synergies of cross-phase and longitudinal lenses. The paper contributes an enhanced conceptualisation of inter-actor influence, a theorisation of learner as policy actor, and an understanding of constraints on mathematics policy-driven change at teacher and learner levels, including challenges to communication of intended curriculum policy, across phases of schooling. The approach appears fruitful for analysis of the experience and mediation of mathematics curriculum policy by key policy actors.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14/12/1322mathematics curriculumpolicy actoredu-businessinstitutional ethnographycross-phaseclassroom-close research
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Teachers, Learners and Edu-Business Co-Constructing Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: An Insider’s Lens in Cross-Phase Longitudinal Research
Education Sciences
mathematics curriculum
policy actor
edu-business
institutional ethnography
cross-phase
classroom-close research
title Teachers, Learners and Edu-Business Co-Constructing Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: An Insider’s Lens in Cross-Phase Longitudinal Research
title_full Teachers, Learners and Edu-Business Co-Constructing Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: An Insider’s Lens in Cross-Phase Longitudinal Research
title_fullStr Teachers, Learners and Edu-Business Co-Constructing Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: An Insider’s Lens in Cross-Phase Longitudinal Research
title_full_unstemmed Teachers, Learners and Edu-Business Co-Constructing Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: An Insider’s Lens in Cross-Phase Longitudinal Research
title_short Teachers, Learners and Edu-Business Co-Constructing Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: An Insider’s Lens in Cross-Phase Longitudinal Research
title_sort teachers learners and edu business co constructing mathematics curriculum implementation an insider s lens in cross phase longitudinal research
topic mathematics curriculum
policy actor
edu-business
institutional ethnography
cross-phase
classroom-close research
url https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14/12/1322
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