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Barbora Loudová Stralczynská; Eva Koželuhová; Zora Syslová; Petra Ristic – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
The aim of the research was to investigate the methods used by preschool student teachers when developing their educational programmes at pre-primary level (ISCED 02). Data were collected between 2020 and 2021 using a questionnaire with 355 part-time students from nine universities across the Czech Republic. Most of the respondents were also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Student Teachers, Curriculum Design
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Erickson, Joy Dangora; Rousseau, Kyleigh Pharris; Barlow, Megan; Wing, Kelly; Thompson, Winston C. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2023
The authors describe a collaboration to create a series of social justice-oriented curriculum maps for a predominantly White preschool. The researchers explore their own identities and biases, how racism disadvantages individuals and groups, and the resulting curriculum design.
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Design, Preschool Education, Predominantly White Institutions
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Chen, Ya-Ling; Tippett, Christine D. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
This study explored the research question: How can project-based inquiry (PBI) in STEM teaching be designed, planned, and implemented in two preschool settings? A case study was conducted, using a collaborative action research approach. This research was conducted with 11 teachers and 300 children from 11 classes at two preschools in Taiwan. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Khanna, Devi; Peterson, Amelia – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
The Happiness Curriculum is made up of compulsory 45-minute daily lessons with the aim of developing mindfulness, critical thinking, reflection, and social-emotional skills among students in more than 1,000 government-run schools in Delhi, India. Three units--Exploring Happiness through Learning and Awareness; Experiencing Happiness in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Elementary Education, Curriculum
John, Melissa-Sue; Sibuma, Bernadette; Wunnava, Susmitha; Anggoro, Florencia; Dubosarsky, Mia – Grantee Submission, 2018
This paper describes an iterative participatory curriculum design approach to developing a problem-based STEM curriculum for preschool children. The curriculum aims to teach young children problem-solving using an adapted version of the engineering design process (EDP). Despite evidence showing that a rigorous, integrated STEM curriculum promotes…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Problem Based Learning, STEM Education, Curriculum Development
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Nuttall, Amanda – Improving Schools, 2016
This article draws on an inquiry into the design and implementation of the curriculum in a case study urban primary school in the north of England. In response to the introduction of the revised National Curriculum in September 2014, teachers and the school head engaged in a critical discourse around their perceptions of students' attainment and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Urban Schools, Elementary Schools, Curriculum Implementation
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Kinzie, Mable B.; Whittaker, Jessica Vick; McGuire, Pat; Lee, Youngju; Kilday, Carolyn – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background/Context: As increasing attention is paid to preparing students to succeed in school, the development and adoption of research-based curricula have become progressively more important. However, many curricular designs lack a basis in scientific evidence; research and curricular design are frequently treated as two separate enterprises.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Kindergarten, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Design
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Hussain, Hanin; Conner, Lindsey; Mayo, Elaine – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2014
This paper uses the discourse of complexity thinking to envision curriculum as six partial and coupled facets that exist simultaneously: curriculum as structure, curriculum as process, curriculum as content, curriculum as teaching, curriculum as learning and curriculum as activity. Such a curriculum is emergent and self-organising. It is emergent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Curriculum, Curriculum Design
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Turunen, Tuija A.; Maatta, Kaarina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
The focus of this article is on Finnish pre-school curricula from the early pioneering years to the start of the new millennium (1972-2000). Pre-school has been part of the Finnish education system for nearly 40 years. It has been undergoing a challenging reconstruction process and changes influenced significantly by the increasing call for…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
Boboc, Marius; Nordgren, R. D. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2010
Practical and engaging, this book contains 21 case studies that help students apply curriculum theory to classroom reality. Each case is authored by an in-service teacher, reflecting on ways to improve instruction by making changes to various aspects of the curriculum. These real-life examples investigate up-to-date curricular issues ranging from…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, School Activities, Curriculum Implementation