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Direct linkMattias Börjesson; Anna-Lena Lilliestam – Curriculum Journal, 2025
In the 21st century, the idea that students should have opportunities to develop powerful knowledge has been influential in educational research. Social realism as an educational philosophy, and a focus on knowledge derived from academic disciplines, have been advanced as an alternative to social constructivism and traditionalism as a basis for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Curriculum Development, Models
Gandolfi, Haira Emanuela – Curriculum Journal, 2021
Recent 'decolonising the curriculum' movements have called for Higher Education to rethink how it engages with diversity and colonialism in its lectures and syllabi. But what can these ideas mean for science subjects in secondary schools? Grounded on a decolonial perspective around the Science and Technology Studies (STS) field, this paper…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, National Curriculum
Samuelsson, Johan; Wendell, Joakim – Curriculum Journal, 2016
The increased interest in basing teaching on disciplinary thinking has had a profound impact on the syllabus for history in Sweden. Within this context, we examine how students demonstrate one aspect of disciplinary thinking in history, namely reasoning about historical sources. The material used is written answers to an assignment about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Course Descriptions, Thinking Skills
Isaacs, Tina – Curriculum Journal, 2014
Curriculum and its associated assessment are at the heart of educational systems worldwide. In light of perceived national educational stagnation or decline, as well as of performance in international league tables such as Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), countries have embarked on curriculum and assessment reforms. This is…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Scott, David – Curriculum Journal, 2016
This article focuses on the learning affordances of different language and communication curricula in the world. For reasons of space, only two national education systems (Finland and Singapore) and their language and communication curricula are referred to. The accounts of national education systems consist of the identification of mechanisms…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Development, Standards
Simpson, Ian; Halse, Christine – Curriculum Journal, 2006
This article analyses the relationships between the perspectives of stakeholders involved in the development of the 1998 New South Wales Stages 4-5 history syllabus. It examined four key issues that emerged in the debates about history education during the review and found that stakeholders' views diverged significantly on three of these issues.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, History Instruction, Course Descriptions
