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Direct linkTerhoven, René – Perspectives in Education, 2022
This article focuses on the prevailing discourse in the enactment of governmental curriculum policy via the leadership practices of school management teams (SMTs). Based on qualitative research in three selected working class schools, the article explores how the working class context positions schools in distinct ways to enact curriculum policy.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Leadership Styles, School Administration
Download full textTerhoven, René; Fataar, Aslam – South African Journal of Education, 2018
This article focuses on the way in which the school management teams (SMTs) of three selected working-class schools have developed and implemented a range of leadership practices within their schools in order to provide a platform for optimal teaching and learning. The article is based on qualitative research conducted in schools on the outskirts…
Descriptors: Working Class, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Leadership Role
Lewis, Kirstin; Demie, Feyisa – Review of Education, 2015
This research identifies strategies that schools have used to raise achievement among white working class pupils in multiracial schools. The methodological approach comprises case studies of schools and focus group interviews to ascertain the views of teachers, parents and children about strategies that worked to raise achievement. The study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, White Students, Working Class
Rodriguez, Miguel Somoza – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
From 1952 onwards, following the approval of the "Second Five-year Plan," a series of profound changes took place in the Argentinean national curriculum and in its schoolbooks. Some authors have pointed out that such changes implied the use of the educational system as an "agency for indoctrination." Other authors have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, National Curriculum, Democracy
Marsh, Jackie – 1999
Based on the premise that preschool and school settings fail to take into account children's popular cultural interests when developing curriculum content, this study explored the potential of popular culture for motivating young children to engage in literacy and oracy practices. Participating were 94 three- and four-year-olds in two nurseries in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Popular Culture
Peer reviewedPicciano, Anthony – Urban Review, 1991
Use of computers for instruction in public schools in New York City is compared with that in public schools in suburban Westchester County. Survey responses from 90 city and 46 suburban schools emphasize hardware availability, the nature of instructional software, and perceived problems/progress in integrating computers into the curriculum. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
