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Farley, Stuart – Teaching History, 2021
Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives, which took full account of the chronological diversity of people's…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Death, European History, Jews
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Szakács-Behling, Simona – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
To what extent are differently 'Europeanising' school forms programmatically geared towards building transnational solidarities, as their ethoses might suggest? This study draws on an analysis of discursive constructions of solidarity in the curricula for social studies and humanities at secondary level of two forms of schooling promoting a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Social Studies, Humanities, Public Schools
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Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina – Education Economics, 2018
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university and to choose a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) major. The reform increased the difficulty of graduating from high school by increasing the instruction time in core subjects and by raising the graduation…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Educational Change, Enrollment, Majors (Students)
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Cavero Rubio, José Antonio; Mullor, Javier Reig; Martín, Agustín Pérez – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
On signing the Bologna declaration in 1999, European countries committed themselves to addressing the reforms necessary for adapting their university education to the European Higher Education Area. This modification process culminated in 2010, and this research aims to analyse the degree of divergence that currently exists in each course subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis
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Bordonaro, Karen; Rauchmann, Sabine – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
This paper explores how internationalization is understood and experienced in German academic libraries. Its main purpose is to move the discussion of internationalization in academic libraries beyond the boundaries of English-speaking North America by investigating a European perspective. Its secondary purpose is to investigate the role of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Global Approach, Online Surveys
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Berger, Susanne; Canning, Roy; Dolan, Michael; Kurek, Slawomir; Pilz, Matthias; Rachwal, Tomasz – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2012
This paper presents a pilot comparative research project on pre-vocational education in lower secondary schools (ISCED level 2) within regions in three European countries. The primary aim of the study was to better understand how the pre-vocational education curriculum is constructed and taught within schools. A case study methodology was selected…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Pilz, Matthias; Li, Jun – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2012
This article compares the pre-vocational education curriculum plans in lower-secondary schools in Germany and Mainland China, and their implementation. Choosing the curricula of certain school types in two selected regions in both countries, this research first carries out a content analysis of the curriculum plans, using the criteria developed…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
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Zendler, Andreas; Klaudt, Dieter – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
The significance of computer science for economics and society is undisputed. In particular, computer science is acknowledged to play a key role in schools (e.g., by opening multiple career paths). The provision of effective computer science education in schools is dependent on teachers who are able to properly represent the discipline and whose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Computer Science, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Engel, Laura C.; Ortloff, Debora Hinderliter – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2009
This paper examines the Europeanization of citizenship education policy through a comparative analysis of two European states, Germany and Spain, with strong traditions of regional control of education policy. While previous studies have tended to focus on national responses to and implementation of EU initiatives, they often disregarded the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Citizenship, Textbooks, Citizenship Education
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Elster, Doris – Journal of Biological Education, 2007
ROSE (the Relevance of Science Education) is an international comparative study on the factors which influence learning in science. For this study, the interests, opinions and attitudes of young people were polled by using a standardised questionnaire. Initial data, empirically gathered from 1247 students at the end of lower secondary level in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Student Attitudes, Student Interests, Foreign Countries
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Wolforth, John – Canadian Geographer, 1982
In Germany during the 1970s, a largely descriptive and encyclopedic approach to geography instruction was replaced by a global approach which used world regions as vehicles for examining themes. The role of three instruments of curriculum change--an official syllabus, a textbook series, and a curriculum project--is examined. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Guri-Rosenblit, Sarah – 1999
This book compares the emergence and development of autonomous, fully fledged distance teaching universities in the higher education systems of the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Canada, and Israel. It examines the evolution and functional roles of these universities and outlines their commonalties and divergences. Main lessons are synthesized…
Descriptors: College Role, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Development
Solomakhin, D. – 1995
A pilot center was established in Yaroslavl, Russia, to train business clerks using German curricula and training that could be applied to Russian conditions. Choice of Germany as a model was due to increasingly developing cooperation with that country in the field of vocational education. The Russians analyzed German curricula and worked out the…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
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Muller-Michaels, Harro – European Education, 1991
Compares the teaching of literature in East and West Germany. Discusses both the nature and titles of the material taught and problems of teaching literature espousing individual thought and criticism in a communist system. Describes common ground in the literature curriculum of both that may serve as a basis for curriculum of unified Germany. (DK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Change