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Adamo Di Giovanni; Lana Parker – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2025
The overarching objective of this study is to become more closely attuned to the politics of curriculum by identifying the discursive practices employed by governments to position curricular reform. In particular, this analysis aims to show how the twinning of neoliberalism and neoconservatism has served to justify shifts in curriculum at three…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Neoliberalism, Curriculum Development, Political Attitudes
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Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Parr, Judy; Lindgren, Eva; Kaufman, Douglas – Curriculum Journal, 2018
In this article, researchers in the field of early writing identify underlying beliefs and values about writing and learning to write for the beginning years of formal schooling in four jurisdictions: the American state of Connecticut, New Zealand, the Canadian province of Ontario, and Sweden, as reflected in the respective curricula and standards…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries, Beginning Writing
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Fenwick, Lisl – Curriculum Journal, 2017
This study analyses how discourses in regional contexts affect the development of curriculum-based literacy standards for adolescents in schooling. A comparative case-study research design enabled the influences of discourses at the regional level to be analysed. The case studies include the development of curricula to define a minimum literacy…
Descriptors: Standards, Comparative Analysis, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Gilbert, Jen – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
This paper explores discourses of affirmative consent in sex education curriculum and policy. It traces the ways in which discourses of consent have emerged in sex education debates, focusing first on the activism of two young women in Ontario, Canada who lobbied the provincial government to include discussions of consent in a new Health and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Informed Consent, Females
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Chun, Christian W. – Classroom Discourse, 2020
Aside from mentioning possible issues of hidden identities and curriculum development relating to anorexia, little research has been done exploring how discourses of eating disorders and images of the body have been mediated by teachers and learners in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classroom. Drawing upon an ethnographic EAP classroom…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Curriculum Development, Eating Disorders, Discourse Analysis
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Weinstein, Matthew; Blades, David; Gleason, Shannon C. – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2016
Internationally, STEM has become a slogan for organizing new discourses and practices in science education. In the form of a three-act play, we argue that STEM as social engineering orients and organizes school science education curriculum development in directions of scientific innovation and engineering that reinforce and legitimize a neoliberal…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Education, Discourse Analysis, Educational Practices
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Caldecott, Marion; Koch, Karsten – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
Prosody plays a vital role in communication, but is one of the most widely neglected topics in language documentation. This omission is doubly detrimental since intonation is unrecoverable from transcribed texts, the most prevalent data sources for many indigenous languages. One of the underlying reasons for the dearth of prosodic data is…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Research, Indigenous Populations
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Wernicke, Meike; Bournot-Trites, Monique – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2011
In 2010, the British Columbia Ministry of Education introduced an updated version of its international languages curricula titled Additional Languages (AL) draft curriculum which set out a clear articulation of the province's language education as conceived and developed over the past 15 years. The strength of the draft curriculum lies in its…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Kelly, Deirdre M. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2011
This paper argues for seeing in-depth news coverage of political, social, and economic issues as "public policy pedagogy." To develop my argument, I draw on Nancy Fraser's democratic theory, which attends to social differences and does not assume that unity is a starting point or an end goal of public dialogue. Alongside the formation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Democracy, Mass Media Role
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den Heyer, Kent – Teaching Education, 2009
In this study, a group of teacher educators converse about their teaching practice in light of a new provincial K-12 program of social studies. The most noteworthy feature of this new program is its explicit call for teachers to include Aboriginal and Francophone perspectives as they teach to the program's two central themes of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators
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Taylor, Lisa K. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2008
This article addresses two key challenges that globalization poses to literacy research: the need for new models of literacy and literacy education, and the stakes of adopting multiliteracies pedagogies in different contexts--that is, the tensions between competing hegemonic discourses of collective identity in the public sphere of ethnolinguistic…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Literacy Education, Multilingualism, Global Approach
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Butterwick, Shauna; Benjamin, Amanda – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2006
This paper offers a critical discourse analysis of a life skills career education curriculum for schools in British Columbia, Canada. This curriculum calls for the development of a set of life skills that are positioned as central to students' employability. At the heart of the curriculum is a focus on personal development, in particular, the need…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Self Concept, Discourse Analysis