Dinan-Thompson, Maree (2003) The mother hen, chickens or roosters: who has control over curriculum change in the chookyard. Curriculum Perspectives, 23 (1). pp. 55-60.

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Abstract

The exploration of enabling and constraining issues and characteristics embedded in the social, cultural and physical contexts of Sunstate College – a pseudonym – forms the framework for this paper. The construction and implementation of the Health and Physical Education key learning area during 1995 to 1998 explicated micropolitical factors that made the curriculum change process complicated and problematic. The metaphor of ‘chookyard’, with its distinct hierarchies and boundaries, was used as a topical approach to understanding curriculum control, and in particular, the enabling and constraining factors.

Item ID:	570
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	0159-7868
Keywords:	curriculum change; curriculum control; micropolitics
Additional Information:	Copyright 2003 Australian Curriculum Studies Association
Date Deposited:	20 Oct 2006
FoR Codes:	13 EDUCATION > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy > 130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes:	93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9399 Other Education and Training > 939999 Education and Training not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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