Our Crude Handling of Educational Reforms: The Case of Curricular Integration

Abstract

Failings in British Columbia’s efforts to promote curricular integration illustrate a wider tendency in education systems to attempt systemic reform by responding in simpleminded ways to complex challenges. I argue we must improve our collective ability to conceptualize and operationalize educational initiatives if reform efforts are to succeed.

Parce que notre système d’éducation favorise des réponses simplistes à des questions complexes, l’auteur soutient qu’il faut améliorer notre capacité collective de conceptuali- ser et de rendre opérationnelles les initiatives en matière de pédagogie si l’on veut assurer le succès de nos efforts de réforme.