According to the Levin article, how are school curricula developed and implemented? What new information/perspectives does this reading provide about the development and implementation of school curriculum?:

According to the Levin’s article school curricula implementation is political in nature and is organized around two objectives of general goals and specific learning activities and objectives. The implementation of school curricula is mainly based around larger issues and that is because of the lack of time to discuss issues in detail because of all the immense important factors governments have to already deal with. This leads to swift decisions that sometimes can be made with little discussion and information. As learnt through this article there is an immense pressure of what issue to contribute to next and that creates implementation “to get short shifted”. This article also provides information on how every education policy is a political decision that can be controversial and how most education policies are made with no public discussion.

Surprises and Concerns:

The lack of public discussion surprises me as changes in the school curricula should be based around what the teachers and students feel they need changed and what they find important. Without discussion, how will these political parties know what is needed in a school curriculum and how will students and teachers have a voice to support different ideas. It concerns me with these political leaders in charge as they may not care to put effort in seeing what needs to be changed as they are not the ones to be directly affected by it or they have a fear of what is too controversial so they decide to not speak out and request change.

Connections and Tensions of the Development of the Treaty Education Curriculum:

Some connections I can make between the article and the implementation of Treaty Education in Saskatchewan is that the Treaty education contains general goals of what is to be taught about treaty education and support how the implementation of school curricula is based around major issues as the lack of information and support around Indigenous people has been been a major issue in Canada. Some tensions I imagine that were part of the development was that implementation of school curricula is very political and that as stated in the article, governments make choices based on what voters want and that “doing the unpopular is precisely how a government gets defeated in the next election”. Challenging injustice and oppression is a highly controversial topic to act on and often political leaders may think the easier way out is to ignore them. With the implementation of the Treaty Education curriculum I imagine there was major controversy of why it was needed because of the lack of information there has been around it and also with the constant historical dismissal of a voice for Indigenous people.