How do teachers learn to enact the Australian Curriculum? A question of policy in practice (2015-2018)
Abstract
The new 'Australian Curriculum' has been portrayed as essential for cultivating an innovative, economically responsive and socially responsible nation. However, the curriculum itself is little more than a blue-print, a set of guidelines for an imagined future. This project aims to show how teachers learn to engage with the new curriculum in the context of increasingly standardised national and international educational reforms; this is significant for determining whether and how the hopes and resources invested in the Australian Curriculum actually result in projected benefits. The proposal will reveal how policy support for the new curriculum influences teacher learning in diverse schooling settings in a broadly neoliberal, global context.
