Change and stability in the curriculum: An overview of the issues

Westbury, Ian

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Title

Change and stability in the curriculum: An overview of the issues

Author(s)

Westbury, Ian

Issue Date

1980

Keyword(s)

• curriculum reform
• new math
• educational systems
• mathematics education
• curriculum evaluation
• Systemic reform

Abstract

This opening address, presented at a cross-national working meeting on the problematic impact of the international math education reform movement of the 1960s and 1970s, “new math,” sought to spell out the issues to be addressed by the meeting. Starting from an assumption of a limited success of the”new math” movement in the US, the paper sought to spell out the issues around systemic“reform” in national and/or sub-national educational systems. In particular, the paper addresses the issues around the the problem-finding, problem-solving, and implementation tasks of education systems in a context in which the delivery of existing educational services to population is always the operational priority of the system. How can such functions focused on change/reform within educational systems be institutionalized?

Publisher

Institut für Didaktik der Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld

Series/Report Name or Number

Materialien und Studien Band 19

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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