The contested introduction of linguistics in the Dutch exam: A historical curriculum study on the relationship between school subjects and academic disciplines

In 1991 the CVEN, a committee assigned to develop a new exam program for the school subject Dutch in upper secondary education, published a report in which it proposed to the Ministry of Education to experimentally include linguistics as a separate component in this exam. Mainly because the Ministry at the time had already decided to start an extensive educational reform dealing with upper secondary education as a whole, this report did not get an immediate follow up. Also the next committee that in 1995 was assigned by the Ministry to develop an exam program for Dutch and that also recommende... Mehr ...