This research responds to calls for the decolonization and indigenization of education and higher education spaces and institutions within Canada, specifically within the physical education (PE) and physical education teacher education (PETE) sub-disciplines. Recognizing our own responsibility to attend to decolonization and indigenization, we…

The present study aimed to investigate senior teacher candidates' theoretical knowledge about curriculum development, their perceived competence for subject-specific curriculum knowledge, and the curriculum-related courses taken during their pre-service teacher education. As a survey, the study was carried out with 473 senior teacher candidates…

Today, the ability to communicate in English is a need brought about by the globalization process encompassing developments in many fields such as science and technology. To address this need, English language teaching programs in Turkey (henceforth ELTP) underwent substantial changes within the larger curriculum reform movements taking place in…

For educators, the content of the curriculum really is like oxygen: it is the necessary precondition for improving schools, closing the achievement gap, engaging parents, and preparing teachers. However, when educators take the content of the curriculum for granted, they lose opportunities to coordinate and collaborate. Good curriculum instruction…

The article discusses the frustration of a mathematically gifted child and his/her need for stimulus and extension. It outlines a course in mathematics presented at the Young Persons' Institute for the Promotion of Art and Science, Tel Aviv University Technical College. (Author)

The author argues that selecting content for primary science should be taken seriously, suggests criteria for selecting content, and discusses ways of setting up and using content guidelines. (KC)

"The Core Knowledge Sequence (CKS) is a consensus-based model of specific content guidelines that, when used as the basis of about 50% of a school's curriculum, can provide a solid, coherent foundation of learning for students in the elementary grades." An introductory section discusses the CKS, its implementation, profiles of the CKS at…

Describes the adaptation and testing of a curriculum designed to mediate the effects of television. Curriculum included lessons on special effects, violence, commercials, audio and video aspects. Results of the testing indicate that children in kindergarten through second grade made significant gains in their knowledge of how television works. (PD)

This book advocates providing high-quality K-6 social studies instruction. The text provides practical information on how teachers can conduct high-quality social studies programs in their classrooms. The volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 offers an overview of the formal and informal social studies curriculum, its history, current status,…

Suggests that elementary self-contained classroom teachers be provided with specific statewide content guidelines. The content should be based upon Piaget's theory of cognitive development. (Author/KC)

Asserting that elementary classroom teachers want and need specific, inexpensive, practical art projects and that art educators in teacher education should supply such projects and ensure their aesthetic and philosophical soundness, the author describes a scheme for generating a year's worth of such activities for each grade level, K-6.…

Several of the major law studies projects are placed on a continuum and briefly analyzed as to conceptual base. At one end of the continuum is the Street Law Model representing projects dealing with real legal problems is the inner city. At the other end of the contiuum are the Conceptual Law Models dealing with legal concepts. (Author/DE)

Until recently, schools in Poland have done little to discourage anti-Semitism and have not taught about the Holocaust nor explained why there are virtually no Jews in Poland. Curriculum modifications in the next school year will introduce the subject at the elementary-school level. (SLD)

Law related curriculum materials are enumerated, briefly described, and addresses are given for further information. (DE)

Alberta's (Canada) new 1984 elementary art curriculum, which is described here, has as its central focus the child as artist. It is concerned with having children think and behave as artists. (RM)