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Niall Mulpeter; Orla McCormack; Joanne O'Flaherty – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
The curriculum development process is complex and developing a worthwhile process to support curriculum inception is a valuable endeavour. This paper explores the experiences of the curriculum development process through the lens of an expert advisory committee charged with developing a post-primary curriculum for publicly managed schools in line…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Leadership Responsibility, Teacher Empowerment
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Fitzpatrick, J.; O'Grady, E.; O'Reilly, J. – Irish Educational Studies, 2018
Building on the various works of theorists pertaining to curriculum negotiation, the Negotiated Integrated Curriculum (NIC) initiative detailed in this article attempts to redress the imbalance within curricular decision-making whereby student voice and learner agency is largely absent. The NIC initiative enquires into students' concerns about…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Curriculum Implementation, Student Empowerment, Foreign Countries
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Coulter, Maura; Scanlon, Dylan; MacPhail, Ann; O'Brien, Wesley; Belton, Sarahjane; Woods, Catherine – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2020
Major curriculum changes have recently occurred in Ireland, including redeveloping the primary curriculum and the enactment of the Junior Cycle Framework (DES, 2015). Positive and negative experiences affect the attitudes which contribute to determining the quality of curricular experiences. Framed in the work of Fullan, M. (1991. "The New…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Alignment (Education), Educational Change, Curriculum Development
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Howley, Donal; Tannehill, Deborah – Physical Educator, 2014
The aim of this study was to examine senior cycle students views on their involvement in a process of curriculum negotiation and implementation and how the methodologies they experienced affected their investment in and ownership of the physical education curriculum. The study was conducted in an urban co-educational comprehensive school. The…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Physical Education, Curriculum Development, Urban Schools
Karkkainen, Kiira – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Innovation is essential for the education sector. The ways in which curriculum decision making is organised reflects different implicit approaches on how educational systems pertain to promote innovation in education. Curriculum holds an outstanding place when seeking to promote innovation in education, as it reflects the vision for education by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Curriculum Development, Secondary Education
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Enright, Eimear; O'Sullivan, Mary – European Physical Education Review, 2010
The data for this paper were generated during a three-year, Participatory Action Research project, with 41 15-19-year-old female co-researchers and activists, within and beyond the walls of a secondary school. The purpose of the larger study was to work with these students to understand and transform their self-identified barriers to physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Females, Adolescents