Pedagogic Change and Social Change |
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| Authors: | Carol Buswell |
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| Institution: | School of Applied Social Science , Newcastle, upon Tyne Polytechnic |
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| Abstract: | It is argued that curriculum changes which include content packaging and pedagogic change are an aspect of the deskilling of teachers and contain within themselves new forms of social control. The operation of such schemes in one school is examined to consider this, and also the way in which such changes affect social relationships with pupils and legitimate disparate educational outcomes which come to depend more on pupil characteristics than teachers’ invervention. Teacher and pupil responses to such schemes are examined. Given teachers’ contradictory class location within the social relations of production, it is argued that the increase of such curricular schemes will increase the number of proletarianised teachers which will affect relationships within schools. |
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