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ABSTRACT
The conception and production of the National curriculum in information and technology
education is the subject of this research. This curriculum was a particular innovation in the
revised national compulsory school curriculum of 1999. The study draws on the concept
of deliberation which Schwab introduced and Reid developed further (Reid, 1994). An
evaluation is made of the extent to which the production of the national curriculum in
information and technology education reflects the characteristics of curriculum delibera-
tion as proposed by Reid. The research questions are: What views did policy-makers have
about learning and the use of information technology and about the production and
function of a curriculum? How was the national curriculum revised and the curriculum in
information and technology produced? What sort of curriculum is the National curriculum
in information and technology education? The study builds primarily on interviews with four
key policy-makers in autumn 2003 on the revision of the national curriculum in the years
1996–99 and an analysis of the published curriculum. The Minister of Education and the
project manager developed the project with the principle that it was important for
different groups to participate in the production and the process reflects a suitable and
logical plan for the production of a curriculum. It is difficult to assess the extent to which
account was taken of ethical and moral issues on the basis of the information available.
It is the view of the authors that the practical and institutional momentum of traditions
in the school system were underestimated both in the manner in which the national
curriculum was produced and in the final product.
Allyson Macdonald er prófessor
vi› Kennaraháskóla Íslands
Þorsteinn Hjartarson er skólastjóri
Fellaskóla í Reykjavík
Þurí›ur Jóhannsdóttir er sérfræ›ingur
vi› Rannsóknarstofnun Kennaraháskóla Íslands
„ V I Ð V O R U M E K K I B U N D I N Á K L A F A F O R T Í Ð A R I N N A R “
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