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

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 systeme d’education favorise des reponses simplistes a des questions complexes, l’auteur soutient qu’il faut ameliorer notre capacite collective de conceptuali- ser et de rendre operationnelles les initiatives en matiere de pedagogie si l’on veut assurer le succes de nos efforts de reforme.