The launch of a Computer Science curriculum specification in upper secondary schools in Ireland in 2018 was a landmark and a historic development in Irish education. Addressing the historical policy decisions adopted towards establishing the specification, this paper presents an analysis of developments from the 1970s as revealed in key policies…

Previous work has not yet comparatively studied which forms of peace education (PE) have been adopted in national laws. Through content analysis of policy documents, we seek to find out why the Colombian Congress established PE as mandatory content across all educational levels in 2014 in a postwar phase, while the German Standing Conference of…

The growing societal and environmental challenges of the 21st century are ubiquitous. Thus, marketing educators are tasked with incorporating a sustainability approach into their curriculum, educating students on the synchronous pursuit of economic, environmental, and social goals. Drawing on a systematic analysis of sustainability…

Academic research trends involving public health education may reflect a certain degree of talent construction status. This study systematically reviews the data for published literature on graduate public health education, aiming to provide evidence for the optimization of public health postgraduate training mechanisms in China. Keyword…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present an assessment of the sustainability content of the Nigerian engineering curriculum in universities. Design/methodology/approach: Content analysis is used to generate and analyse data from three engineering documents, namely, the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards for Engineering Programmes in…

This literature review sketches a landscape of scholarly debates about the curriculum in Catholic primary and secondary schools in the United States and the United Kingdom since 1993. This landscape has three main characteristics. First, scholarly debates about the curriculum in Catholic schools have been few, particularly empirically based…

Scotland, in common with many other countries internationally, has paid considerable attention to the development of assessment for learning. Currently, schools in Scotland are engaged in a major programme of curriculum and assessment reform, entitled Curriculum for Excellence. As part of the reform process, there is concern amongst practitioners,…

Reviews literature syllabuses recommended by eight examining boards in England for in-depth study by high school students. Findings indicated that syllabuses are conservative in nature, do not include much modern literature, and generally include fiction which either portrays women as unimportant or does not portray women at all. (DB)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe research into the requirements, practice and prospects for the field of learning design and provide the findings of this study to date alongside early recommendations for furthering the profession in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes the findings of a review of the literature…

Chapter six traces teaching in terms of methodological problems, the theory of Communist education, problems of didactics and teaching methods, the theory of labor and polytechnical education, teacher training, and research and training staffs. Chapter seven describes research on teaching conducted by educational institutions, teacher training…

Examines the scope and methodologies of future curriculum research in Great Britain. One topic that should be studied is the need for schools to plan their curricula as a whole, not as a collection of separate subjects. (AM)

Examines the need for developing a content of education which will meet the needs of students who will reach early adulthood by the end of the 1900s and live the greater part of their lives in the twenty-first century. Presents suggestions on developing a curriculum which will meet this need in European nations. (Author/DB)

Examines social studies in England in light of political developments such as increase in demand for local educational control in Scotland and Wales and closer economic and social ties between England and the European Community. New directions for citizenship education are recommended which reflect these developments and encourage students to…

Explores the relationship of Communist theory to education and curriculum development in China. Suggests that politics is the basis of all educational activities and that development of productive laborers with socialist consciousness is the primary educational objective. (DB)

Discusses trends in education for international understanding in Japan since World War II. Information is presented on curriculum development, objectives, student attitudes toward international understanding and human rights, efforts to develop lifelong learning programs, and experimental activities in the area of international understanding. (DB)