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Chapman, Sian; Wright, Peter; Pascoe, Robin – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2018
Arts education in Western Australian primary schools consist of learning opportunities outlined by mandated curriculum. However, assumptions underlying this curriculum involving access, resources and support impact schools' capacity to implement the curriculum without them being adequately addressed by the written curriculum. Drawing on the policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Elementary Education, Curriculum
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Coll, Leanne; O'Sullivan, Mary; Enright, Eimear – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
What do young people believe sexuality education ought to be about? It is within the absence of a sustained and critical consideration of the possibilities and politics of engaging in research with rather than for young people in the reimagining of sexuality education that this paper is positioned. Data were generated as part of an 18-month Youth…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Secondary School Students, Participatory Research
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Reitano, Paul; Winter, Satine – Curriculum Journal, 2017
This research investigates the understandings of four teachers who teach history in primary and early childhood settings. Data were gathered from participants through semi-structured interviews. The participants were experienced teachers who were in the process of curriculum change--from teachers of studies of society and environment to teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Teachers
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Mills, Martin; McGregor, Glenda; Baroutsis, Aspa; Te Riele, Kitty; Hayes, Debra – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
This article considers the ways in which three alternative education sites in Australia support socially just education for their students and how injustice is addressed within these schools. The article begins with recognition of the importance of Nancy Fraser's work to understandings of social justice. It then goes on to argue that her framework…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Social Justice, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
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Salter, Peta; Maxwell, Jacinta – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
National curriculum development is a complex and contested process. By its very function, a national curriculum serves to organise diverse interests into a common framework, a task fraught with cultural and political tensions and compromises. In the emergent Australian Curriculum these tensions are manifest in and around the cross-curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Sustainability
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Meleta, Fufa E.; Zhang, Weizhong – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The main objective of this study is to compare the process of the senior secondary school mathematics curricula development in Ethiopia and Australia. The study was investigated qualitatively with document analysis and semi-structured interview research methods. The documents were collected from Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis, Secondary School Mathematics
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Casinader, Niranjan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2016
At first glance, the introduction of a national curriculum for Australian schools suggested a new era of revival for school geography. Since the late 1980s, the development and introduction of more integrated conceptions of curriculum design and implementation has seen the decline of Geography as a distinct subject in Australian schools, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Secondary Education, Geography
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Cheng, Ming; Adekola, Olalekan Adeban; Shah, Mahsood; Valyrakis, Manousos – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Increasing enrolment of Chinese students has become a key feature of internationalisation for Western universities, but there is limited research into how curriculum internationalisation affects Chinese students' learning experiences. Using the typologies of curriculum internationalisation as a framework, this paper explores and compares how…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, International Education, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
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Cullen, Trevor – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2016
There are considerable differences in the structure, content, and delivery of tertiary journalism degrees in Australia as identified in a 2014 Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) Innovation and Development Project report on graduate qualities and journalism curriculum renewal. To address this situation, the author argues for journalism capstone…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Units of Study, Journalism Education, Skill Development
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Matthews, Kelly E.; Belward, Shaun; Coady, Carmel; Rylands, Leanne; Simbag, Vilma – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Higher education policies are increasingly focused on graduate learning outcomes, which infer an emphasis on, and deep understanding of, curriculum development across degree programs. As disciplinary influences are known to shape teaching and learning activities, research situated in disciplinary contexts is useful to further an understanding of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Mathematics Skills, Statistical Analysis
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Bish, Adelle J.; Newton, Cameron J.; Browning, Vicky; O'Connor, Peter; Anibaldi, Renata – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
Engineering asset management (EAM) is a rapidly growing and developing field. However, efforts to select and develop engineers in this area are complicated by our lack of understanding of the full range of competencies required to perform. This exploratory study sought to clarify and categorise the professional competencies required of individuals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Engineering Education, Curriculum Development
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Rodger, Sylvia; Turpin, Merrill; O'Brien, Mia – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Threshold concepts were used to underpin a major curriculum reform endeavour in occupational therapy. After rigorous interrogation of troublesome knowledge and ensuring that the emergent concepts conformed to the five characteristics of previously proposed threshold concepts, we identified five threshold concepts. Two years into the rollout of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Occupational Therapy, College Faculty
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Dyment, Janet; Morse, Marcus; Shaw, Simon; Smith, Heidi – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2014
The paper examines how outdoor education teachers in Tasmania, Australia have implemented and perceive a new pre-tertiary Outdoor Leadership curriculum document. It draws on an analysis of in-depth semi-structured interviews with 11 outdoor education teachers. The results revealed that teachers were generally welcoming of the new higher-order…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Teacher Attitudes, Semi Structured Interviews
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McCuaig, Louise; Carroll, Kristie; Macdonald, Doune – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
The teaching of health literacy in school-based health education (SBHE) is of international interest, yet there is less ready access to how conceptions of health literacy can be operationalised in school programmes. More specifically, while articulated in curriculum documents such as the incoming Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Health Materials, Secondary School Curriculum
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Kehrwald, Benjamin A.; McCallum, Faye – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
The implementation of technology enhanced learning in higher education is often associated with changes to academic work. This article reports on a study of staff experiences with curriculum development and teaching in multiple modes of blended and online learning in a Bachelor of Education degree. The findings indicate that the changes…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Technology Integration, Capacity Building, Educational Quality
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