The making of South Africa's national curriculum statement
SOURCE: Journal of Curriculum Studies
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2005
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.Chisholm
KEYWORDS: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 2830
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/7363
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/7363
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2005
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.Chisholm
KEYWORDS: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 2830
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/7363
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/7363
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Abstract
The paper discusses the relationship of different lobbies, voices, and interests to the curriculum, and argues that a neat translation between interests and curriculum outcomes is not possible, but that the echoes of struggles, which take both a material and symbolic form, are evident within the final version. The paper describes the influences of a vocational lobby, environmental and history interest groups, university-based intellectuals and non-governmental organizations, teachers-unions, and the Christian Right. It contends that there was no neat alignment of interests; they were sometimes internally fractured and alliances were unstable over time.-
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