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Kan, Flora L. F. – Curriculum Journal, 2011
This article examines how interest groups in Hong Kong have politicised national history, an unpopular school subject, for their own political ends and allied themselves with the PRC against the SAR government and its policy of not making it a single, independent, compulsory core subject in the school curriculum. The article argues that this has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Influences, Politics of Education, History Instruction
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Edwards, Richard; Miller, Kate; Priestley, Mark – Curriculum Journal, 2009
Drawing upon research in the curriculum of hospitality, this article explores the contrasting ways in which the prescribed curriculum is translated into the enacted curriculum in school and college contexts. It identifies organisational culture and teacher and student backgrounds and dispositions as central to the emerging contrasts. It uses this…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Organizational Culture
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Cowan, Elaine M.; McMurtry, David C. – Curriculum Journal, 2009
Changes in society and government have increased concerns of low participation and involvement by people, especially the young, in the political process and decision-making. As a result, citizenship has become a focus of recent curriculum developments in many countries. In Scotland, "Values and Citizenship" has been made one of the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Implementation