1. Teachers' feelings of curriculum ownership: the Estonian case.
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Viirpalu, Piret, Krull, E., and Mikser, R.
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CURRICULUM planning ,TEACHERS ,FREEDOM of teaching ,GENERAL education - Abstract
The post-Soviet transition agenda in the Baltic states included changing the role of teachers from passive recipients of top-down orders to active curriculum developers who feel ownership over curriculum decision-making. Recent studies have seriously questioned the achievement of this goal. In this article, we aim to elucidate Estonian schoolteachers' feelings of curriculum ownership as expressed in a questionnaire that asked about their role as curriculum developers and curriculum users. We found that most of the respondents did not express feelings of curriculum ownership. We will discuss the potential reasons for this finding and the implications for further enhancing teachers' curriculum ownership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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