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Højgaard, Tomas; Sølberg, Jan – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
This article examines curricular development within compulsory science and mathematics education (grades k-9) in Denmark during a 20-year transition towards competency-oriented curricula. The article contains two main parts. In the first part, we describe the Danish case, emphasizing how international and national trends at the turn of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Science Curriculum, Mathematics Curriculum
Wahlström, Ninni – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2018
As an overview in connection with the 50th anniversary of the "Journal of Curriculum Studies" (JCS), this article begins with John Dewey's notion that all educational actions carry philosophical implications. The tension between different education-research philosophies, between non-social and social education philosophies in Dewey's…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Research, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy
Fjellström, Magnus; Kristmansson, Per – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
Apprenticeships are required for many trades and can take different forms. In Sweden, one form can be viewed as a pathway where students complete a three-year-long vocational education in upper secondary school followed by a post-secondary apprenticeship in a particular trade. Another takes the form of vocational training within the framework of…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Vocational Education
Mølstad, Christina Elde; Prøitz, Tine S. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
This article investigates how learning outcomes, a concept inspired by an Anglo-Saxon curriculum approach, are expressed in policy documents, with an emphasis on expectations articulated to teachers. Developments in education policy for the last two decades reflect a widespread expansion of learning outcome orientation in curricula and assessment…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy, Alignment (Education), Curriculum Development
Making History Relevant to Students by Connecting Past, Present and Future: A Framework for Research
Van Straaten, Dick; Wilschut, Arie; Oostdam, Ron – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
History teaching usually focuses on understanding the past as an aim in itself. Research shows that many students do not see the point of this and perceive history as not very useful. Yet history plays a major role in the orientation on present and future. If students fail to see this, the question arises whether this is due to a lack of explicit…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Educational Theories, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
Ormond, Barbara Mary – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
This paper explores the challenges for teachers in positioning them as independent curriculum makers. History teachers in New Zealand have recently entered uncharted territory with the abandonment of prescribed topics for history and a new-found authority to determine the selection of historical knowledge taught to their senior secondary students.…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Curriculum Development, Professional Autonomy, History Instruction
Rantala, Jukka; Manninen, Marika; van den Berg, Marko – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
In 2011, the Finnish National Board of Education assessed the learning outcomes of history with a study whose results raised doubts about the fulfilment of the goals of history education. This article seeks to expand awareness about Finnish adolescents' understanding of historical empathy. The study assessed twenty-two 16-17-year-old high school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Adolescents, Empathy
Thorburn, Malcolm – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland outlines a policy vision of a more progressive, integrated and holistic form of education; a commitment which contains an obligation for health and well-being (HWB) to be a responsibility of all teachers. A critical policy analysis approach was utilized in order to review school-level progress in different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, National Curriculum, Excellence in Education
Lundgren, Ulf P. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
Michael Young's article "Overcoming the crisis in curriculum theory: a knowledge-based approach" ("JCS, 45", 2) is discussed from the starting point that the claimed crisis is constructed from a decisive solution, that is the solution determines what is a crisis. But curriculum research and curriculum theory are in need of…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Research
Law, Wing-Wah – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
This article uses curriculum-making frameworks to analyse and reconstruct the Chinese curriculum-making model and unpack the dynamics, complexity and constraints of China's curriculum reform since the early 1990s. It argues that curriculum reform is China's main human capital development strategy for coping with the challenges of the 21st century,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Position Papers

Blyth, W. A. L. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1974
Various stages in the development of educational objectives by a major British curriculum development project are described. (DE)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Comparative Education, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development

Clark, Charles – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1988
Argues that objectives are indispensable in planning an educative environment. Examines the "process model" which shuns curricular objectives, because they restrict children's inquiry. Proposes a method which recognizes the necessity of objectives while avoiding the restrictions on children's freedom which those restrictions often impose. (GEA)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment

Seixas, Peter – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1993
Reviews the role of history in the U.S. social studies curriculum. Explains that differing interpretations of history and the purposes of history have had a significant impact on the structure of the K-12 social studies curriculum. Argues that the time is ripe for historians and social studies educators to renew cooperative efforts. (CFR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Change
Short, Edmund C. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2002
One of the missions of a university is the creation and dissemination of knowledge. Because this work is traditionally divided among scores or even hundreds of academic and research units for the convenience of the producing scholars and the orderly retrieval of this knowledge, the problem of introducing university students to the world of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Objectives, Curriculum Development, College Students
van Driel, Jan H.; Bulte, Astrid M. W.; Verloop, Nico – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
This paper reports a study on teachers' domain-specific beliefs about the chemistry curriculum for upper-secondary education in The Netherlands. Teachers' beliefs were investigated using a questionnaire focused on the goals of the chemistry curriculum. The design of the questionnaire was based on three curriculum emphases: "fundamental…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Chemistry, Educational Change, Foreign Countries