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Nyoni, Jabulani – Transformation in Higher Education, 2019
Background: Forging 'new' decolonial education curriculum policy reform with ill-conceived intents may lead to both socio-political and economic pathologies and failure. Aim: The aim of the social sciences meta synthesis done was to consolidate gathered evidence from published scientific articles on decolonial curriculum reform policies. It was…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intellectual Development, Foreign Policy, Discourse Analysis
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Finney, Sara – L2 Journal, 2019
Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of increasing the intellectual viability of lower-level foreign language (FL) study while facilitating connections between academic practice, learners' lives, and global communities. This article reports on a content-based role-immersion simulation (RIS) designed to incite a critical orientation…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Curriculum Design, Intellectual Development
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Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Innovative educational practice reveals the secrets to enabling complex learning and self-authorship.
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Theory Practice Relationship, Higher Education, Self Actualization
Hausfather, Sam – 1996
Current reform efforts in education emphasize role changes for students and teachers within classrooms and schools. A phenomenological study examined one teacher's internal conflict while negotiating the shifting boundaries of power relations between teacher and students. The goal of this study was to explore the processes and constraints involved…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development, Learning Experience
Goodlad, John I. – Today's Education, 1980
The challenge of making schools more comprehensive and responsive to students' intellectual, social, vocational, and personal needs extends to the entire community. (JD)
Descriptors: Community Role, Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum Design, Educational Quality
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Wright, Bob – Australian Journal of Education, 1992
It is argued that Australian elementary mathematics curricula have been influenced by earlier British and United States educational movements and theories and are out of touch with current research emphasizing a constructivist approach. A new model of young children's numerical development is offered, and recommendations for improving mathematical…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Education
Avens, Cynthia; Zelley, Richard – 1990
This report summarizes the results of a research study conducted to assess the intellectual development of students in the QUANTA Learning Community at Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC) (Florida) in the 1989-90 academic year. QUANTA is a freshman interdisciplinary program with 75 students and three faculty. Three courses--English, psychology,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Design