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Nancy Boury; Amy Siegesmund; David B. Kushner; Davida S. Smyth; Mary E. Allen; Adronisha Frazier; Illona Gillette-Ferguson; Miriam Markum; Glenn Patriquin; Sara E. Reynolds; Sarah Rosario; J. Jordan Steel; Rachel Horak – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
Curricular guidelines promote standardized approaches to coverage of essential knowledge and skills in undergraduate education. The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Microbiology were developed in 2012. Continuous, rapid growth of knowledge in science and a dynamic, changing world necessitate updates…
Descriptors: Microbiology, Communicable Diseases, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
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Barrot, Jessie S. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
This study critically examines the K-12 curriculum reform in the Philippines and suggests ways on how it can move forward. Specifically, three recent curriculum guides (i.e., science, mathematics, and English) were analysed to determine how they fit with the Education 4.0 milieu. Using a curriculum analysis matrix, the findings indicate that these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Harðarson, Atli – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
In Chapter VIII of "Democracy and Education", Dewey objects to all three of the following propositions: (1) education serves predefined aims; (2) Education serves aims that are external to the process of education; and (3) Education serves aims that are imposed by authority. From the vantage point of policy-makers and authors of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
DeRenzo, Kerri – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This basic qualitative study sought to understand why and how homeschooling parents make the decision using the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as curriculum guidelines for their children. Specific areas explored by this research consisted of how homeschooling parents align their curriculum to the CCSS and whether or not the CCSS has influenced…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Parents, Common Core State Standards, Curriculum Guides
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Westbury, Ian – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
Previous papers in this issue of "JCS" have presented case studies of the state-based curriculum commissions that developed the "Illinois Learning Standards" of 1997 and Norway's "Laereplanverket 1997" ("L97") (1997). The studies were developed using as a framework a body of German research that sees…
Descriptors: Case Studies, State Curriculum Guides, Reflection, National Curriculum
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Westbury, Ian – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This case study of the development of the "Illinois Learning Standards" of 1997 parallels a study of the development of the Norwegian compulsory school curriculum of 1997, "Laereplanverket 1997." The pair of case studies is designed to explore the administration of state-based curriculum-making and, in particular, the use of…
Descriptors: State Curriculum Guides, State Standards, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Westbury, Ian; Aspfors, Jessica; Fries, Anna-Verena; Hansén, Sven-Erik; Ohlhaver, Frank; Rosenmund, Moritz; Sivesind, Kirsten – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This paper introduces the questions and approaches of a five-nation cross-cultural study of state-based curriculum-making discussed in this issue of "JCS." The paper reviews the two decade-long interest of many nations in state-based curriculum-making and presents a framework for thinking about state-based curriculum-making as a tool of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Cross Cultural Studies
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Westbury, Ian; Sivesind, Kirsten – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
The paper identifies three tools that support the administrative instrument of a state-based curriculum commission: compartmentalization, licensing, and segmentation. These tools channel the state's curriculum-making towards forms of symbolic rather than regulatory action. The state curriculum becomes a framework for the ideological governance of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, State Curriculum Guides