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Liu, Qian; Colak, Fatma Zehra; Agirdag, Orhan – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
This study draws on data collected from Chinese language textbooks to investigate the ways in which ethnic minority cultures and languages are represented in primary school textbooks in China. Drawing on the methods of thematic and comparative analysis, we specifically analyse how the representation of ethnic minorities in Chinese textbooks has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Zhang, Zheng; Heydon, Rachel – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This paper concerns an exploratory and interpretive case study of the literacy curricula in a Canadian transnational education programme (Pseudonym: SCS) delivered in China where Ontario secondary school curricula were used at the same time as the Chinese national high school curricula. Using ethnographic tools and actor-network theory, the study…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Curriculum Implementation
Zhang, Zheng – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
This case study explored the institutional, programmatic, and classroom literacy curricula of a Canadian offshore school in Macau (school pseudonym: MCS). Undergirded by the conceptual tool of cosmopolitan literacies, this study specifically examined the network effects that influenced the forms of cosmopolitan literacies in MCS's three levels of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, International Schools
Cross, Russell – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
"Language across the curriculum" has been pivotal in establishing a knowledge base on the role of language for accessing opportunities afforded by the curriculum. Yet, the ubiquity of language "within" all facets of human activity--not least of all the more abstract domains of thinking and relating with others--can easily…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Role
Lavrenteva, Evgenia; Orland-Barak, Lily – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
Teaching culture in the foreign language classroom has been widely debated ever since its importance was recognized. Current research suggests that centralized "top down" curricular policies can become potential constraints to teaching culture and points to the need for adapting curricula for culture-integrated language learning. This…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Graham, Suzanne; Macfadyen, Tony; Richards, Brian – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2012
While learners' attitudes to Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) and to Physical Education (PE) in the UK have been widely investigated in previous research, an under-explored area is learners' feelings about being highly able in these subjects. The present study explored this issue, among 78 learners (aged 12-13) from two schools in England, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Modern Languages, Second Language Learning
Zhang, Zheng; Heydon, Rachel – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
This paper focuses on the lived curriculum from the vantage of the students in a case study of a Sino-Canada transnational education programme in China. The programme consisted of subject area curricula transplanted from Ontario, Canada, and taught in English, as well as subject area curricula from Mainland China that was taught in Mandarin. The…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions, Case Studies
Rhedding-Jones, Jeanette – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2002
This paper explores standardized English curriculum practice in a globalizing world. It uses one particular site of formative/summative assessment to show how colonial and modernist trajectories are carried in these times. The argument is that an ethical evaluative practice would allow for local hybridizations. To represent and theorize from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Examiners, Ethics, English Curriculum