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Scanlon, Dylan; MacPhail, Ann; Calderón, Antonio – Curriculum Journal, 2023
The aim of this paper is to explore and provide an alternative theoretical viewpoint, informed by empirical studies, of the curriculum policy enactment process which spans across different curriculum policy spaces by drawing on figurational sociology. This paper constructs this alternative figurational viewpoint of the policy enactment process by…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Stakeholders
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Kennedy, Kerry J.; Robinson, David – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
Curriculum reform was high on the agenda of South Africa's post-apartheid governments. Yet as time passed, the initial reforms were seen as increasingly problematic, especially when pedagogical realities met policy priorities. There was reluctance on the part of policymakers to give up what was seen as the democratic imperative behind the reforms.…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Divya Samuga_Gyaanam+Bheda – Assessment Update, 2024
Scholars have advocated for student voice and participation across curriculum design, assessment planning, and policymaking in higher education to advance and achieve equity (Montenegro and Jankowski 2020; Jankowski and Bheda 2022; Damiano 2018). However, the reality seems far different from the intention or aspiration, primarily because explicit…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Curriculum Design, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning
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Nordin, Andreas; Sundberg, Daniel – Comparative Education, 2021
Competence-based approaches (CBAs) in education have become an internationally important educational policy concept in recent decades. However, a substantial body of research has suggested that in order to understand and explain the evolution of CBAs, there is a need to analyse curriculum-making as a complex and multi-layered practice. To…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
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Hof, Barbara; Bürgi, Regula – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
Computer education was an integral part of curriculum development and a priority of the OECD's policy agenda at the turn of the 1970s. Based on an analysis of archival documents, programme overviews and publications, this article describes how the introduction of computers in the classroom was advocated by the OECD and, more specifically, how this…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Curriculum Development, International Organizations, Educational History
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Pineda, Pedro; Celis, Jorge – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Peace, Educational Change
Kim Cliett Long; Angela Gunder; Beverly Robinson; Van L. Davis; Dylan Barth; Terrance Adams, Contributor; Ricardo Brown, Contributor; Kimberly Bryant, Contributor; Meacie E. Fairfax, Contributor; Cristi Ford, Contributor; Marybeth Gasman, Contributor; Jennifer Mathes, Contributor; Robbie Melton, Contributor; Michael Nettles, Contributor; Russ Poulin, Contributor; Omari Ross, Contributor – Online Learning Consortium, 2024
The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) presents an unprecedented opportunity for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to lead in an era characterized by rapid technological advancement and societal transformation. This report explores the integral role HBCUs--with their history of academic excellence and commitment to…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Black Colleges, School Role
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Krause, Kerri-Lee D. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
The aim of this paper is to examine key change vectors shaping the undergraduate curriculum in the third decade of the twenty-first century. The paper begins by outlining selected definitions, foundational theories and conceptual frameworks underpinning this analysis of the undergraduate curriculum and its influences. Three key external forces…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Hellman, Daniel S. – Music Educators Journal, 2020
Policy capacity in music education can be enhanced through understanding the policy-making process and state governmental policy. Three examples of engagement in state-level policy action are used to explore agency, negotiation, and visioning as important dispositions for advancing music education policy goals. First, influencing state-level…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, State Policy
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Meyer, Elizabeth J.; Leonardi, Bethy; Keenan, Harper B. – National Education Policy Center, 2022
Transgender and nonbinary (collectively referred to here as "trans") students are ill-served by most school environments. They experience challenges trying to navigate institutions that, at best, are poorly designed to support them and that often work against them. Although some districts and states have developed laws and policies to…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Educational Policy
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Harðarson, Atli – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
In Chapter VIII of "Democracy and Education", Dewey objects to all three of the following propositions: (1) education serves predefined aims; (2) Education serves aims that are external to the process of education; and (3) Education serves aims that are imposed by authority. From the vantage point of policy-makers and authors of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Penney, Dawn – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
This paper uses Ball's [1998. Big policies/small world: An introduction to international perspectives in education policy. "Comparative Education," 34(2), 119-130] policy analysis and Bernstein's [1990. "The structuring of pedagogic discourse. Volume IV class, codes and control". London: Routledge; 2000, "Pedagogy,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods, Correlation
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Nordin, Andreas; Sundberg, Daniel – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
In this paper we will address the impact of Europeanisation on national curriculum reforms with empirical reference to the Swedish compulsory school, and based on the concept of competence discuss the question of transnational curriculum convergence. The main interest is directed towards how the answers to the question of what counts as knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Mills, Martin; McGregor, Glenda – Curriculum Journal, 2016
This paper provides a detailed account of the Queensland education system's engagement with reforming curriculum, pedagogies and assessment. In so doing, it responds to the University College London's Institute of Education report on "high-performing" jurisdictions, of which Queensland, Australia, was identified as one. In this report,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
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Harris, Anne; Ammermann, Mark – Teaching Education, 2016
Traditional ties between "arts" education (that is, discipline-based arts subjects and activities in schools) and an emergent notion of "creativity" in educational discourses and policy documents are loosening, with implications for both. While creativity seems to be on the ascent, the arts may not be as fortunate; creative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Art Education, Educational Policy
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