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Curriculum Implementation Leadership and Equity in Education: Curriculum Struggles and Hopes in Jamaica During the Post-Independence Era [Kõva köide]

  • Formaat: Hardback, 130 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 11 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Research on Educational Equity in Developing Nations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 13-Dec-2024
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032733845
  • ISBN-13: 9781032733845
  • Formaat: Hardback, 130 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 11 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Research on Educational Equity in Developing Nations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 13-Dec-2024
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032733845
  • ISBN-13: 9781032733845
"Curriculum Implementation Leadership and Equity in Education: Curriculum Struggles and Hopes in Jamaica During the Post-Independence Era takes a critical historical perspective on how curriculum is understood, tracing major national curriculum implementation efforts within primary and secondary schools in Jamaica from the 1970s to 2000s. Providing first-hand accounts of teachers implementing national curricula and supported by empirical data throughout, this volume offers a unique analysis and synthesisof curriculum implementation and showcases how curriculum implementation leadership is linked to the achievement of equity in education. A valuable resource for students, educators, and policymakers, this fascinating historical account provides a new framework and key considerations for effective curriculum implementation leadership aiming at reducing educational inequality"--

Curriculum Implementation Leadership and Equity in Education: Curriculum Struggles and Hopes in Jamaica During the Post-Independence Era takes a critical historical perspective on how curriculum is understood, tracing major national curriculum implementation efforts within primary and secondary schools in Jamaica from the 1970s to 2000s. Providing first-hand accounts of teachers implementing national curricula and supported by empirical data throughout, this volume offers a unique analysis and synthesis of curriculum implementation and showcases how curriculum implementation leadership is linked to the achievement of equity in education. A valuable resource for students, educators, and policymakers, this fascinating historical account provides a new framework and key considerations for effective curriculum implementation leadership aiming at reducing educational inequality.



Curriculum Implementation Leadership and Equity in Education takes a critical historical perspective on how curriculum is understood, tracing major national curriculum implementation efforts within primary and secondary schools in Jamaica from the 1970s to 2000s. It is a valuable resource for students, educators, and policymakers.

1. Introduction: The education equity challenge and the role of
curriculum
2. Curriculum implementation and its role in the education equity
challenge in Jamaica
3. Curriculum implementation leadership and Caribbean
orality
4. Curriculum change in Jamaica and the necessity for curriculum
implementation leadership
5. Implementing curriculum integration and
constructivism: The case of the Revised Primary Curriculum
6. Implementing
curriculum integration and constructivism: The case of the National Standards
Curriculum (NSC)
7. Curriculum implementation leadership to reduce education
inequities References Appendices Appendix A: Teachers questionnaire Appendix
B: Interview questions Appendix C: Rank order of concerns about the RPC
according to mean scores of concerns Appendix D: Functions being carried out
by teachers at each Level of Use Appendix E: Implementation Leadership Scale
(ILS) for Curriculum Implementation Leadership
Carmel Roofe is a Professor of Curriculum Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Education at The University of the West Indies, Jamaica.