Curriculum Implementation Leadership and Equity in Education

Carmel Roofe is a Professor of Curriculum Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Education at The University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

• 1. Introduction: The education equity challenge and the role of curriculum 2. Curriculum implementation and its role in the education equity challenge in Jamaica 3. Curriculum implementation leadership and Caribbean orality 4. Curriculum change in Jamaica and the necessity for curriculum implementation leadership 5. Implementing curriculum integration and constructivism: The case of the Revised Primary Curriculum 6. Implementing curriculum integration and constructivism: The case of the National Standards Curriculum (NSC) 7. Curriculum implementation leadership to reduce education inequities References Appendices Appendix A: Teachers’ questionnaire Appendix B: Interview questions Appendix C: Rank order of concerns about the RPC according to mean scores of concerns Appendix D: Functions being carried out by teachers at each Level of Use Appendix E: Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS) for Curriculum Implementation Leadership