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Kozoll, Richard H.; Ower, Peter S. – Science Education International, 2023
Research-based science curriculum has become a common means of supporting best practices in science teaching. In response to his middle school's transition from one such commercially available science curriculum to another, a seventh-grade science teacher elected to make certain changes to the newly adopted curriculum in its first year of use.…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Professional Identity, Individual Development
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Guadalupe, Tasha; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
A growing body of research has suggested that teachers who give their students the opportunity to voice their opinions by purposefully negotiating the curriculum can improve engagement and realize a number of important affective goals. In this paper, we describe the study of one teacher, Jennifer, as she attempted to purposefully negotiate the…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Curriculum Development
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Kus, Zafer – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2014
The social studies curriculum was recently revised in Turkey, running in a pilot scheme in the school year 2004-05. It was then implemented in primary schools all over Turkey from 2006. This study describes the kind of citizen it aims to form by analysing all of the documents relating to social studies teaching. The social studies curriculum for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Curriculum Development, Elementary Schools
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Davis, William Jeffrey – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2009
Involving communities in the process of curriculum development may not be novel, but it seems lacking with regard to controversial issues such as lessons on diverse family structures, homosexuality, and other special situations. Disparity in values and convictions can lead one person to support a decision, while another person might hold an…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Opinions, Homosexuality