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Curriculum-making: Priorities, Constraints, and Enabling Conditions

Curriculum reform across the four nations has renewed attention to teachers and curriculum leaders as curriculum-makers. Yet curriculum-making is often treated as something schools can simply do, without enough attention to the time, resources, professional learning, shared language and institutional conditions that make it possible.

This BCF online workshop brings together teachers, curriculum leaders, researchers and education stakeholders to examine curriculum-making amid reform. The session will begin with a short framing contribution before moving into facilitated curriculum-making clinics. These breakout discussions will invite participants to identify current curriculum priorities, the constraints shaping local curriculum work, what is often misunderstood by those outside practice, and the enabling conditions needed for meaningful curriculum-making.

The event is designed to support careful dialogue across the four nations without assuming that England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are directly comparable reform contexts. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of shared and jurisdiction-specific curriculum challenges, and their contributions will inform a short BCF briefing on curriculum-making priorities, constraints and enabling conditions.

Programme

16:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Kevin Smith, Cardiff University 
16:40 Framing keynote
Yuwei Xu, University of Nottingham
16:55 Breakout curriculum-making clinics
17:35 Plenary synthesis
17:55 Closing Remarks & Next Steps
Kevin Smith, Cardiff University 
18:00 Close of Event

Facilitators

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Yuwei Xu, Dr

Associate Professor at University of Nottingham

Dr Yuwei Xu is an Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education at the University of Nottingham. Previously he has held academic positions at University College London (UCL) and the University of Portsmouth. With a PhD in gender and early...

Chair

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Kevin Smith, Dr

Reader at Cardiff University

I am a curriculum theorist and educational researcher concerned with how curriculum becomes lived, participatory and meaningful experience. My work draws on curriculum theory, particularly reconceptualist curriculum studies and philosophy of...

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Matt Burns, Mr

Principal at N/A

Matt is the principal of a special school with residential care in Wales. He has worked in special education in various roles for over 20 years and has been a headteacher for over 15 years. Before his move to special education, he worked as a...