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School Subjects, Subject Communities and Curriculum Change: the Social Construction of Economics in the School Curriculum

Jephcote, Martin John and Davies, Brian 2007. School Subjects, Subject Communities and Curriculum Change: the Social Construction of Economics in the School Curriculum. Cambridge Journal of Education 37 (2) , pp. 207-227. 10.1080/03057640701372459

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Abstract

The place of economics in the curriculum in England and Wales provides a lens through which we may view the ways in which the curriculum as a whole is fought over and remains shifting terrain. Conceived of as social movements, school subject communities are made up of competing factions giving rise to contest and conflict both within themselves and with other subjects. A social constructionist perspective, such as Goodson's, would suggest that the form and content of the curriculum are outcomes of such ongoing struggle, involving the interplay of power and control that reflect deep‐rooted traditions. Bernstein's notions of school subjects imply complex interplay of official and pedagogic agents in determining their fates as singulars, regions or generic entities. The rise and fall of economics lay substantially outside the control of its subject community and the social movements within it. At post‐16, a search for new content and pedagogies seemed to take little heed of its curricular market position. During the compulsory phase, the emergence of sub‐factions interested in vocational rather than economics education ensured its consignment to cross‐curricular theme status and relative oblivion in the post‐1988 National Curriculum.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0305-764X
Last Modified: 04 Jun 2017 01:49
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3192

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