Hirsch Argument Atlas
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Sundby, A. H. & Karseth, B. (2022)

'The knowledge question' in the Norwegian curriculum
The Curriculum Journal 33(3), 427-442 · 10.1002/curj.139
Finds Norway's competence-oriented curriculum reform structurally cannot specify content the way a knowledge-led model requires, illustrating (from the policy side) the content-vs-competence tension Hirsch's P11 predicts.
Primary targets: P11 P24
Availability: open access
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Positions (4)

Norway's subject curriculum framework prescribes skills, methods and strategies more clearly than it prescribes the specialised knowledge content to be taught.
“the subject curriculum framework more clearly prescribes skills, methods and strategies than the specialised knowledge content that is to be taught. (BERA blog summary, not the article itself)”
argument sub-agent primary read targets: P11 P24
Hirsch's response — not found
none found in ten books
The language of the Norwegian subject curriculum is generic and open regarding explicit subject knowledge -- the opposite of a grade-by-grade content specification.
“the language used in the Norwegian subject curriculum is generic and open regarding explicit subject knowledge. (BERA blog summary, not the article itself)”
argument sub-agent primary read targets: P11
Hirsch's response — not found
none found in ten books
A competency-oriented curriculum model finds it structurally difficult to prescribe explicit subject content, because content- and competence-oriented curricula rest on contrasting assumptions.
“in a competency-oriented model it is difficult to prescribe explicit subject content. This difficulty arises from the contrasting assumptions that underlie a content-oriented curriculum versus a competence-oriented curriculum. (BERA blog summary, not the article itself)”
argument sub-agent primary read targets: P11 P24
Hirsch's response — not found
none found in ten books
Adding new content components onto an existing competence-based curriculum framework only makes the design more complex, rather than resolving the tension between the two models.
“adding new content components to the existing subject curriculum framework makes the curriculum design rather complex. (BERA blog summary, not the article itself)”
argument sub-agent primary read targets: P24
Hirsch's response — not found
none found in ten books