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Dezuanni, Michael – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
This article outlines the knowledge and skills students develop when they engage in digital media production and analysis in school settings. The metaphor of "digital building blocks" is used to describe the material practices, conceptual understandings and production of knowledge that lead to the development of digital media literacy.…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Technological Literacy, Foreign Countries, Critical Reading
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Dillon, J. T. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2009
What are the basic things that compose curriculum, and what are the questions that may be posed about these things? Joseph Schwab's conception of curriculum is used to introduce a scheme of questions concerning the nature, elements, and practice of curriculum. Formulations of questions by other curriculum theorists are reviewed and analysed in…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Curriculum Design
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Slabbert, Johannes A.; Hattingh, Annemarie – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2006
This essay suggests a way for creating a curriculum for the future amidst the challenges of post-modern uncertainty. Curriculum discourse in the past has been dominated by widely-accepted key questions, which produce and maintain curricula that are essentially fragmented and reductionistic, and directly opposed to the essential demands of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Postmodernism, Student Centered Curriculum, Holistic Approach
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Wraga, William G.; Hlebowitsh, Peter S. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2003
The curriculum field in the USA has existed in a chronic state of disarray, even crisis, for many years. This study considers whether the field's "reconceptualization" has alleviated the signs of crisis articulated some 30 years ago by Joseph Schwab. It concludes by suggesting that four issues should be examined in order to establish a vital sense…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Intellectual History
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Carter, D. S. G.; Hacker, R. G. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1988
Discusses a study designed to evaluate the relationship between curriculum innovation and the classroom instructional methods of teachers and their students. Concludes that although significant changes in classroom practices accompany the introduction of a new curriculum package, the changes were antithetical to the intentions of the package…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research
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Buckley, Joanne – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1994
Maintains that Canadian scholar, Kieran Egan, developed a schema of childhood development that presents a bold, new approach to the stages of growth, both affectively and cognitively. Describes Egan's views and how the school curriculum must be adapted to correspond more closely to these views. (CFR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes