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Wouter Sanderse – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
The central question of this paper is whether and how, from a virtue ethical perspective, teacher modelling and student emulation hang together in moral education. This matters, because philosophers have often focussed either on the moral psychology of emulation or on modelling as a moral educational method, neglecting the interplay between the…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Teaching Methods, Ethics
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Wheelahan, Leesa; Moodie, Gavin – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
This paper critiques the emergence of micro-credentials in higher education. It argues that micro-credentials build on the discourse of employability skills and 21st century skills within human capital theory, and that they increase the potential of human capital theory to 'discipline' the HE curriculum to align it more closely with putative…
Descriptors: Criticism, Credentials, Higher Education, Employment Potential
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Kopinska, Violetta – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
The increase in nationalist tendencies around the world after 2001 signifies changes in the concept of citizenship as reflected in the discourses of the parties coming to power. How does this translate into changes in education? In this article, I analyse the case of Poland. The research is focused on finding an answer to the following question:…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Attitude Change, Self Concept, Discourse Analysis
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Hübner, Nicolas; Savage, Corey; Gräsel, Cornelia; Wacker, Albrecht – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
Prior research suggests that teachers' positive perceptions of a reform are key when it comes to its successful implementation. The importance of teachers as enactors of change efforts results from their close tie to what is happening in the classroom. This suggests that without persuaded change agents, innovations are unlikely to be implemented…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Zach, Sima; Shoval, Ella; Lidor, Ronnie – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
The purpose of this review was to organize the results of studies conducted during the last 18 years into a body of knowledge concerning the link between physical education (PE) and academic achievement (AA). Such knowledge may help in clarifying the role of PE in the schools, whose main focus is on improving the AA of the children. The term PE is…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Academic Achievement, Role of Education, Politics of Education
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Verhaegen, Soetkin; Hooghe, Marc; Meeusen, Cecil – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
In this article, we investigate the relationship between different learning methods and the formation of European identity among adolescents. The analysis is based on the European module of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (2009), with 70,502 respondents in 21 European member states. The results show that offering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Self Concept, Correlation