The Reason of Schooling : Historicizing Curriculum Studies, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education

Helping Kids Turn Out Queer: Queer Theory in Art Education

Abstract: This article explores the possibilities of queer theory in art education, and I playfully, perhaps provocatively, ask how art education can help kids turn out queer. Moving away from both victim narratives of queer subjects and the attention on gay artists, who often are the focus of scholarship in art education, I contemplate the ways in which art education researchers address queerness and how those forms of address impact the relations that are (im)possible within the educational dynamic. I ask, “In what ways has queer been addressed in art education research, and how can other scholars push forward with such work to continue queer projects?” I observe a need to challenge fears around queer topics and contemplate how queerness, embedded in theory and practice, disputes and disrupts art education research.

In the grey zone: large-scale assessment-based activities betwixt and between policy, research and practice

Abstract: This paper elaborates on a systematic research review containing 11,000 articles on international large-scale assessment (ILSA) research. Several activities operating under the ‘formal radar’ of science and governmental policy are observed, which we analytically name ‘grey zone’ activities. These activities are historicised, presented and discussed. An analytical division into three different reasons for performing the activities is made: an entrepreneurial policy reason, an entrepreneurial profitable reason and an appurtenance reason. This division highlights some of the actors in the educational grey zone. The paper is theoretical and elaborative, and contains examples of the activities that can be found in a grey zone.

What Is 'Really' Taught As The Content of School Subjects?: Teaching School Subjects As An Alchemy

Abstract: There is general belief in current reforms that a teacher cannot teach a school subject unless she has adequate knowledge of the disciplinary field of that teaching. Coinciding with this belief is the emphasis in teacher education reforms and research on pedagogical knowledge teachers need for children to learn the content knowledge. The identification of “the best practices” and “the core” teaching knowledge to enact the curriculum exemplifies this belief. “Benchmarks” or standards are indicators of whether the teacher has mastered the core or best practices. The professional, highly skilled teacher is one who exhibits the benchmarks and classified as “effective” and “authentic” in classroom teaching.

The representation of Asia in Victorian senior secondary history curriculum

Abstract: The representation of Asia is shaped by the complexities of the curriculum policy process, including the context in which curriculum is developed and the practices of the teachers who enact it. Developing more dynamic and interculturally rich representations of Asia in history curriculum requires an understanding of these complexities.

Tracking the educationalization of the world: Prospects for an emancipated history of education

Abstract: This article reconstructs the rise, the national differentiations and the decline of the genre history of education and outlines subsequently what the history of education could mean if it emancipated itself from the conditions that led to its emergence, religion and nationalism – conditions, that, nota bene, are by no means as dominant as they once were.