From the Editor
Written by: Marlon Lee Moncrieffe
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DR MARLON MONCRIEFFE, PRESIDENT ELECT, BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (BERA), UK
We have had a long era of government policy setting a particular direction for education, with national curriculum aims and contents influencing the delivery of curriculum, and inevitably shaping learning cultures in our schools. With a UK general election on the horizon, this direction of travel may be continued or totally reconceptualized.
But the transference of any government’s ideology to any school’s curriculum and teaching and learning culture is not a straightforward process. The educational site is a varied political and cultural environment in which teachers and students will produce, reinforce, recreate, resist, and transform ideas about culture (Moncrieffe, 2020). Connecting the dots between pedagogy, curriculum and culture in line with government policy may not always translate to the idiosyncratic nature of school contexts. Therefore, bespoke curriculum design by expert
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