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Knapp, Mariella; Hopmann, Stefan – Educational Governance Research, 2017
School leadership nowadays is confronted with ever-changing and fast-growing expectations of what schools should be able to achieve. However, school leadership is an embedded activity, i.e. much depends on the underlying structure and culture of schooling. For instance, different traditions of defining schooling play a significant role in defining…
Descriptors: School Administration, Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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van Tol, Jason – Geographical Education, 2017
This article explores the role that corporations can play in the creation or failure of a sustainable society. A review of the concept of sustainability in the Australian Curriculum: Geography is made and then linked to a comparison of the legal framework guiding business activities of traditional corporations and those of B Corporations, which…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Geography Instruction, Business Education, Sustainable Development
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McPhail, Graham; Rata, Elizabeth – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2016
This paper theorises a curriculum model containing four features. We use these features as criteria to analyse and evaluate two distinctive curriculum design types: '21st Century Learning' and 'Powerful Knowledge'. The four features are: (i) the underpinning theory of knowledge in each curriculum design type; (ii) the knowledge structures used to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Theories
Rafferty, Patricia – Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 2011
In this article the author explores the confluence of curriculum theory and the phenomenological by utilizing the assumptions and foundations inherent in critical pedagogical theory. The author will first explore the meaning of these concepts, along with an examination of the relationship between the phenomenological and contemporary curricular…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Critical Theory, Curriculum Research, Classroom Environment
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Hobbs, Renee; McGee, Sandra – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2014
Contemporary propaganda is ubiquitous in our culture today as public relations and marketing efforts have become core dimensions of the contemporary communication system, affecting all forms of personal, social and public expression. To examine the origins of teaching and learning about propaganda, we examine some instructional materials produced…
Descriptors: Propaganda, Media Literacy, Teaching Methods, Public Relations
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Lee, Kerry; Ng, Swee Fong – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2011
Much of the neuroimaging research has focused on how mathematical operations are performed. Although this body of research has provided insight for the refinement of pedagogy, there are very few neuroimaging studies on how mathematical operations should be taught. In this article, we describe the teaching of algebra in Singapore schools and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Organization, Educational Theories, Algebra
Hendry, Petra – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
How can curriculum history be re-envisioned from a feminist, poststructuralist perspective? "Engendering Curriculum History" disrupts dominant notions of history as linear, as inevitable progress, and as embedded in the individual. This conversation requires a history that seeks "rememberance" not representation, "reflexivity" not linearity, and…
Descriptors: Feminism, Curriculum Research, History, Teaching Methods
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Kimoga, Joseph – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2010
Human beings ought to use critical reflection to define and decide their courses of action. This paper examines the use of attention-seeker questions in the framework of critical pedagogy purposely to study the way some Ugandan teachers are constrained in their practice by their lack of participation in developing the school curriculum. This…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Critical Theory, Curriculum Research, Citizenship Education
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Kerry, Trevor – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2007
This article examines the notion of integrated studies as a way of organising curriculum in schools. Drawing on the insights of educational philosophy, curriculum theory and learning theory it establishes the soundness of a theoretical case for integration. It examines what this view means for the art and science of teaching, and notes examples of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Learning Theories, Curriculum Research, Educational Philosophy
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Reis, Giuliano; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Environmental Education Research, 2007
Why do the designers of environmental education do what they do towards the environment through education? More importantly, how do they account for their design decisions (plans and actions)? Using the theoretical and methodological framework of discourse analysis, we analyse environmental education designers' discourse in terms of the discursive…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Environmental Education, Curriculum Research, Science Curriculum
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Correnti, Richard; Rowan, Brian – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
This study examines patterns of literacy instruction in schools adopting three of America's most widely disseminated comprehensive school reform (CSR) programs (the Accelerated Schools Project, America's Choice, and Success for All). Contrary to the view that educational innovations seldom affect teaching practices, the study found large…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Improvement Programs, Instructional Improvement, Educational Change
Gage, N. L. – 1977
Research on teaching can be concerned with teaching in general or it can be conducted with a single kind of subject matter. Which kind of research is more advantageous? This issue arises in the planning of programs of research on teaching. The generic approach looks for uniformities, concepts, and principles that apply across all or many subject…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction, Program Effectiveness
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Bacon, Robert S.; Green, Jerry E. – Journal of Geography, 1981
An analysis of 14 introductory physical geography textbooks yielded 121 core concepts (basic concepts appearing in 7-10 books). The authors suggest that the trend toward overspecialization in introductory geography classes can be reversed if teachers agree to stress core concepts and their relationships to geography as a whole. (AM)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Geographic Concepts
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Hegarty, Cecilia – Education & Training, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the approach to embedding entrepreneurship within third level education in Northern Ireland by assessing the perceptions of lecturers and learners and monitoring the effectiveness of teaching methods. Design/methodology/approach: Surveys and focus groups were conducted with lecturers and learners…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Postsecondary Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Effectiveness
Pepin, Birgit; Moon, Bob – 1999
This paper analyzes the ways in which national cultural traditions influence the processes of curriculum and pedagogic renewal in three contrasting European countries: England, France, and Germany. The paper is concerned with the ways national school traditions permeate through to systemic features, to the curriculum, and to teachers' pedagogies…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
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