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Reforming the Canadian curriculum
Author(s) -
Werner Walt
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
the curriculum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1469-3704
pISSN - 0958-5176
DOI - 10.1080/0958517950060206
Subject(s) - curriculum , scholarship , relevance (law) , government (linguistics) , politics , rhetoric , political science , state (computer science) , political rhetoric , public administration , sociology , pedagogy , economic growth , economics , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science , law
Curriculum reform in English Canada is currently driven by three national trends. The first is fiscal restraint on the part of all levels of government which results in down‐sizing of available curriculum options for students and support for teachers; this has encouraged, however, the growth of new co‐operative endeavours among educators within and across provincial jurisdictions. The second includes cultural and economic demographic realities that are challenging the relevance and accessibility of the curriculum, while the third is the political rhetoric of economic competitiveness. Curriculum scholarship is influenced by these trends because research funding comes primarily from the state.