Special Interest Group
The aim of the Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy (CAP) SIG is to encourage and support research and other scholarly activity in the inter-related areas of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy across the 4 nations of the UK and internationally. One of the aspirations of the SIG is to re-ignite curriculum studies as a broad field. Examples of such work include attention to the important inter-relationship between these three ‘message systems’, for example the growing influence of assessment on curricula internationally, and attempts by governments and their agencies to prescribe pedagogy, in addition to curriculum, and assessment. Further examples of the work that the SIG encourages are:
The intention is to hold seminars, workshops and other regular meetings in order to:
Assistant Professor at The Education University of Hong Kong
Weipeng Yang, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education at The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He specialises in early childhood curriculum and pedagogy with interests in STEAM education, positive education, and...
Principal Lecturer, Curriculum Development at Sheffield Hallam University
Richard leads the knowledge in education research group in the Sheffield Institute of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Richard holds a Teacher Fellowship from the university...
Professor of Educational Assessment at Institute of Education, UCL
Mary is Professor of Educational Assessment in the Dept for Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at IOE, London. She leads an MA in Assessment and supervises doctoral students interested in assessment, ethics and children’s rights. Mary is...
Abstract Submission Deadline is 31 January 2023
A proposed special issue of the British Educational Research Journal
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