Understanding national curriculum enactment: Choice and constraint in the Welsh school system

博士项目将威尔士的新小学课程置于其中心，旨在了解学校管理层和教师如何运用课程中增加的选择范围。在英国经历了多年的集中和学校课程的缩小之后，这个拟议的项目将以比较的方式探索威尔士新国家课程的实施和制定。现有证据表明，与更繁荣的地区相比，贫困地区的学校不太可能提供更广泛的课程，拟议的项目探讨了威尔士新课程的课程选择是如何实施的。在COVID-19的限制下，研究采用了对教师和校长的定性访谈，以及对新课程的文献分析。没有针对弱势群体的研究，但研究将遵循BERA的道德准则。将遵循卡迪夫大学关于研究人员安全的协议。

The PhD project places the new primary school curriculum in Wales at its centre and aims to understand how the increased scope for choice within the curriculum will be exercised by school managements and teachers. Following years of centralisation and the narrowing of school curricula within the UK, this proposed project will explore the implementation and enactment of Wales' new national curriculum in comparative ways. With extant evidence suggesting that schools in deprived areas are less likely to offer a more expansive curriculum when compared to more prosperous areas, the proposed project explores how curriculum choice extending from the new curriculum in Wales is exercised. Within COVID-19 restrictions the research uses qualitative interviews with teachers and head-teachers, as well as documentary analysis of the new curriculum. No research is undertaken with vulnerable groups, but the research will follow BERA's ethics guidelines. Cardiff University protocols on researcher safety will be followed.