Curriculum Dynamics within and across Contexts

Wieland Wermke is a Professor of Special education at Stockholm University. He has worked on special educators', teachers’ and school leaders' work in various national contexts. His particular interest is in comparative education with a focus on school systems development and structuring of professional practices of various types. Kirsten Sivesind is Professor of Education at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on education policy, curriculum history, and didactics and how international and comparative assessments shape public education in Northern Europe. She also investigates how curricula structure educational conditions for teaching and learning in schools today.

• PrefaceTracing Curriculum Dynamics within and across Contexts. An Introduction into Stefan Thomas Hopmann's workKirsten Sivesind & Wieland WermkeSection I: State-regulated curriculum work: historical and comparative perspectivesCurrent structures of curriculum making in the Federal Republic of Germany and their impact of contentStephan Thomas HopmannRetracing curriculum history: The multiple realities of curriculum makingStephan Thomas HopmannThe Monitorial Movement and the Rise of Curriculum Administration: A Comparative ViewStephan Thomas HopmannHow do curricula work? Models, strategies, and contradictionsJörg Biehl, Stefan Thomas Hopmann & Frank OhlhaverThe Curriculum as a Standard of Public EducationStephan Thomas HopmannOn the evaluation of curriculum reformsStephan Thomas HopmannSection II: Curriculum coordination across social and cultural contextsAbout Impostors and Other EducatorsStephan Thomas HopmannLeeways in curriculum work: basic features of a theory of curriculum planningStephan Thomas Hopmann & Rudolf KünzliThe school subject as an action framework - traditions and perspectives of researchStephan Thomas Hopmann & Kurt RiquartsRestrained Teaching: the common core of DidaktikStephan Thomas HopmannDiversity united. The Scandinavian tradition of lesson planningJorunn H. Midtsundstad & Stefan Thomas Hopmann'Didaktik meets Curriculum' revisted: historical encounters, systematic experience, empirial limitsStephan Thomas HopmannSchool leadership as gap management: Curriculum traditions, Changing evaluation parameters, and school leadership pathwaysMariella Knapp & Stefan Thomas HopmannSection III: Curriculum constituional mindsetsDidaktik and/or Curriculum: Basic Problems of Comparative DidaktikStephan Thomas Hopmann & Kurt RiquartsDidaktik Meets Curriculum: Towards a New AgendaStefan Thomas Hopmann & Bjorg Bradtzoeg GundemMind the gap: Dewey on educational bridge-buildingStefan Thomas HopmannNo child, no school, no state left behind: Schooling in the age of accountabilityStefan Thomas HopmannNo exceptions for Hottentots! Methods of comparative educational science for curative education researchStefan Thomas HopmannThe "equity paradox"Stefan Thomas Hopmann & Sonja Bauer-Hofmann