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Jo Ireland; Dominika Majewska – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2024
This work explores the use of learning theories in curriculum development and gathers evidence for what good practice in this area looks like. By exploring the academic literature in this area, the authors hope to find information that curriculum documents do not provide. The following research questions were proposed: (1) Is there evidence of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Evidence
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Wraga, William G. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
Historical representations of the National Society for the Study of Education's Committee on Curriculum-Making typically recount that the purpose of the committee was to assemble representatives from competing curriculum camps to achieve consensus on curriculum principles, depict the committee's work as important, cast doubt on the consensus the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Curriculum Development, National Organizations, Committees
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Acar, Ahmet – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
This paper aims to investigate the methodological bases of the 1991 ELT curriculum for the secondary schools (1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades), the 1997 ELT curriculum for the 4th and 5th grades of the primary education, the 2006 ELT curriculum for the primary education (grades four to eight), 2013 and 2018 ELT curricula for the primary and secondary…
Descriptors: Educational History, Curriculum Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Condliffe, Barbara – MDRC, 2017
The concept of project-based learning (PBL) has garnered wide support among a number of K-12 education policy advocates and funders. This working paper builds on and updates a seminal literature review of PBL published in 2000. Focused primarily on articles and studies that have emerged in the 17 years since then, the working paper discusses the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Principles
Li, Jun – College Board, 2012
The purpose of this literature review is to identify the most effective instructional principles for English language learners (ELLs) as documented by prominent researchers in the field and existing research reviews. This report is intended as a high-level synthesis of existing reviews of the literature rather than a comprehensive search and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Literature Reviews
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Janssen, Diederik Floris – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2009
The author of this article proposes a critical approach to sexuality as a pedagogical agenda. The author offers a brief appraisal of sexology as a developmental science, and of the academic notion of developing sex. First, the author locates sexuality education in terms of its conventional curricular organization, arguing that that sex…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Critical Theory, Intellectual History
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Kong, Siu Cheung – Computers & Education, 2008
A literature review of the development of the information technology (IT) curriculum in recent decades in Hong Kong reveals that the aim of the curriculum has shifted from Computer Studies to the development of information literacy (IL). Based on a survey of all schools in Hong Kong and in response to the demand for IL in society, a curriculum…
Descriptors: School Culture, Service Learning, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
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Schuh, John H. – New Directions for Student Services, 1999
Focuses on the general impact academic and student affairs partnerships have on the climate and culture of an institution where they occur. Provides a series of nine principles that illustrate successful partnerships. States that the more evident these principles are on a given concept, the greater the likelihood that effective partnerships have…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Curriculum Development, Educational Principles, Higher Education
Silber, John R. – Journal of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, 1980
Administrators must remember that they are in the business of selling higher education and must pay special attention to marketing ethics. High standards must be maintained to preserve the integrity of education to those who truly want to pursue it. (JAC)
Descriptors: Administrators, Admission Criteria, Curriculum Development, Educational Principles
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Simmons, Deborah C.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
This article discusses the relation between instruction prescribed by standardized commercial curricula and reading achievement of mainstreamed students with learning disabilities. An instructional template for use with these curricula is described and its results examined. Limitations of generic instructional procedures adapting mainstream…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Davis, James E. – 1987
This booklet presents a research-based rationale for teaching economics at the middle/junior high school level in the United States. Chapter 1, "Introduction," describes the project in which the rationale was developed and outlines the remainder of the document. Chapter 2, "Elements of a Rationale for Middle School Economic Education," presents…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Curriculum Development, Economic Factors, Economics Education
Meinert, Roland; Pardeck, John T.; Kreuger, Larry – 2000
This book provides a critical examination of the major issues that social work education and practice must confront if social work is to remain as a mainline profession. The book explores issues that are not normally covered in social work literature, such as the challenge of reconstructing the social work profession, the use of technology in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Curriculum Development, Educational Principles, Higher Education
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Cawley, John F. – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1994
This paper introduces a series on the topic and presents a science education framework for teaching students with disabilities. Curriculum and instructional perspectives are reviewed, and the "guided meaning" approach is recommended as an inquiry-based strategy. A thematic scheme for organizing and developing science programs is proposed.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education
Spady, William; And Others – American School Board Journal, 1994
Outcome-based education (OBE) is a comprehensive approach to focusing, defining, and organizing all aspects of a school system around clear demonstrations of learning. Responds to issues opposition groups raise about OBE and describes a meeting of OBE supporters and opponents that yielded an agreement to seek common ground. (MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy
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Gray, Dennis – Educational Leadership, 1984
Although "The Paideia Proposal" (1982) has been "all but totally eclipsed" by other recent publications on school reform, the Paideia Group's painstaking, unified, long-range approach (expanded on in its newly published second volume, "Paideia Problems and Possibilities," and the remaining volume, to be released later…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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