Enactments of Curriculum Policies in Greek Secondary Education: Regulative Discourses and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities
Journal: Open Journal for Sociological Studies (Vol.5, No. 2)Publication Date: 2021-12-31
Authors : Sofia Koutsiouri; Ioulia Antoniou; Anna Tsatsaroni;
Page : 57-70
Keywords : regulative discourse; instructional practices; global curriculum policies; Bernstein; educational inequalities;
Abstract
Many critical research studies have documented the complex ways in which global policies on school curricula are reshaped at national and local levels. This paper focuses on the discourses which regulate the recontextualizations of global policies in local school settings. The paper presents an empirical study on the enactments of language curricula in the Greek school education system. Using Bernstein's theory of knowledge pedagogization, we analyze data produced by semi-structured interviews and classroom observations in five lower secondary state schools with socially and ethnically diverse student populations, in the inner city of Athens. Our findings show that, while the socially disadvantaged schools are regulated by discourses on inclusion, in the more advantaged schools of the study regulative discourses are related to performance management concerns. The paper points to the potential implications of such discourses, claiming that challenging educational inequalities requires to identify and act upon the discourses regulating teachers' practices.
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