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Lundgren, Ulf P. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
Michael Young's article "Overcoming the crisis in curriculum theory: a knowledge-based approach" ("JCS, 45", 2) is discussed from the starting point that the claimed crisis is constructed from a decisive solution, that is the solution determines what is a crisis. But curriculum research and curriculum theory are in need of…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Research
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Ertl, Hubert – Oxford Review of Education, 2006
This paper examines the ways in which the results of the OECD Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) have influenced educational discourse in Germany. It argues that the results caused shockwaves in the educational landscape and led to a re-evaluation of other international comparisons which had presented an unfavourable picture of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
Suppanz, Hannes – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This paper reviews Iceland's performance in skills accumulation against the backdrop of a rapidly changing economic environment and discusses directions for further improvements. Since the late 1990s, the government has considerably raised expenditure on education, which is now among the highest in the OECD relative to GDP. Nonetheless, Iceland…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries