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Greg Vass; David Coombs; Annette Woods; Kevin Lowe – Curriculum Journal, 2024
The "Culturally Nourishing Schooling" (CNS) project is focused on whole-of-learning community efforts that aim to improve the educational experiences and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners. The project supports school-based professional learning strategies, broad school or system-level initiatives and deep…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Teachers, Teacher Workshops
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Michelle Ronksley-Pavia – Curriculum Journal, 2024
Interpreting and enacting curriculum in any school is a complex undertaking, even more so in special school contexts where teachers must develop and enact appropriate curriculum modifications and accommodations for small groups of students and individual students. In special education contexts, educational modifications are changes teachers make…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Curriculum Implementation, Individualized Instruction, Students with Disabilities
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Stavroula Philippou; Vassilis Tsafos – Curriculum Journal, 2024
This paper explores the transfer, translation and recontextualisation of Laurence Stenhouse's work, as encapsulated in the 'teacher as researcher' metaphor, to the Greek language and in the fields of research and policy in Greece and Cyprus. We first briefly frame action research work as emerging through and within a specific space-time (and in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Greek, Translation
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Wrigley, Terry – Curriculum Journal, 2018
This article considers the place of knowledge in developing a socially just curriculum. It pursues the unusual route of a critique of Social Realism, a small but influential tendency in curriculum studies which claims that knowledge has been squeezed out by recent curriculum reforms and that there has been a descent into relativism. This paper…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Parker, Gemma – Curriculum Journal, 2015
This is an era of significant government involvement in schools in England, despite consistent rhetoric from the Department of Education to the contrary. In such a period, signs can be detected of the juncture between a postmodern identity and post-professional status, two models of teacher professionalism supposed in Hargreaves' work on the…
Descriptors: Criticism, Postmodernism, Educational Improvement, National Curriculum
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Anderson, Charles; McCune, Velda – Curriculum Journal, 2013
This article considers how best to conceptualise higher education curricula in a world marked by uncertainty, where knowledge and the foundations of knowledge are strongly contested. We then draw on conceptions of agency that derive from socio-cultural theorising to consider what "tools" for thinking and practising individuals may need to deploy…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Sociocultural Patterns
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Lambert, David – Curriculum Journal, 2011
This article presents a framework for understanding geographical knowledge in the context of the National Curriculum in England. It offers a cautious welcome to the 2010 White Paper in that it places emphasis on teaching and the role of teachers in selecting what is taught: it is broadly sympathetic to the policy thrust which seeks to rebalance…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Geography, Criticism
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Butt, Graham – Curriculum Journal, 2011
The forces of globalisation affect the lives of everybody on the planet--but defining the concept of globalisation, and its appropriate place within the school curriculum, still proves problematic. This article engages with three key issues: our understanding and conceptualisation of globalisation; the impacts of globalisation on education; and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Geography, Curriculum
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Brown, Margaret – Curriculum Journal, 2011
Inferences from recent international comparative data on mathematical attainment, frequently quoted as justification for curriculum change, are critically examined, and the implications are contrasted with expressed curricular aims. Using characterisations by Ball (1990) and Ernest (1991), positions of key actors are analysed in relation to…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Cultural Background
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Scoffham, Stephen; Barnes, Jonathan – Curriculum Journal, 2011
The role of the emotions in learning has long been acknowledged but is often overlooked. This article considers the impact one particular emotion, happiness, has on learning and the school curriculum. Recent reports have drawn attention to the importance of happiness (or the lack of it) by highlighting concerns about childhood well-being. At the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Role, Learning Processes, Children
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Millar, Robin – Curriculum Journal, 2011
This article considers the extent to which the English National Curriculum for science has influenced practice and learning outcomes, and briefly reviews the mechanisms through which this influence is exerted. It identifies and discusses three central issues for the review that is now in progress: the structure of the science curriculum; the…
Descriptors: Evidence, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Scientific Literacy
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Bunnell, Tristan – Curriculum Journal, 2008
The year 2007 was a significant one for the International Baccalaureate (IB) in England and Wales. Several milestones were reached, and the number of schools offering the curriculum reached one hundred. This article charts the growth and development in England and Wales of this continuum of international education and shows how the Diploma…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, International Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Foreign Countries
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Jeffers, Gerry – Curriculum Journal, 2011
The Transition Year (TY) programme is an optional, one-year, stand-alone, full-time programme offered in 75% of second-level schools in the Republic of Ireland. Aimed at those in the 15-16 age group, TY has a strong focus on personal and social development and on education for active citizenship. The implementation of TY in schools is seen as a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Transitional Programs
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Ladwig, James G. – Curriculum Journal, 2009
This essay builds from ongoing development and research work on a model of pedagogy, from New South Wales, Australia, known as the Quality Teaching model. Where international calls for the professional development and certification of teachers rely on mechanisms of credentialing, often with scant direct attention to the acts of teaching, the NSW…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Models, Outcomes of Education
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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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