The GeoCapabilities project asks how powerful geographical knowledge can be brought into a curriculum to enhance students' capabilities to be free to make choices for a life they value. This paper reports on the GeoCapabilities phase 3 project which explored the social justice dimension of GeoCapabilities by working with teachers and students in…

The article demonstrates an action research approach for constructing Transformative Sustainability Pedagogy (TSP) to empower teachers for a sustainable future. The starting point for the TSP was a Transformative Education for Gross National Happiness (GNH) teacher action research project in Bhutan (2010-2013) -- a collaboration between the…

The purpose of this research is to identify problems with formal curricula at different levels of education in Türkiye and to present an approach that offers solutions in line with these problems. In accordance with this purpose, document analysis design within the framework of systematic review was used in the research. In this context, the…

The positioning of physical education in the school curriculum continues to reflect external discourses circulating in political and social milieu. As increasing austerity measures influence and restrict educational priorities, we consider that there is an urgent need for physical educationalists to articulate a rationale for an educational…

This article gives an account of the way an opportunity has been taken to draw together ideas for a curriculum for the common school and beyond, during the writing of a new edition of the "Index for Inclusion; developing learning and participation in schools" (Booth & Ainscow, 2011). I discuss the way thinking about the curriculum…

There has been widespread corruption in almost all societies and a general belief that without the involvement of Accountants, or if accountants carry out their duties effectively, there will be no corruption. Therefore this paper is designed to look at the current approach educating accountants in order to discover the educational arrangement put…

Reviews the history and revisions of core curriculums in higher institutions of learning. Each school may be characterized by the priority of values it observes in its curricular structure. To the academic advisor, the values the curriculum represents are the trail markers that define the guide's terrain. (Author/BEF)

THIS STUDY CRITICIZES MAJOR EXISTING THOUGHTS ABOUT COLLEGIATE CURRICULA AND SUGGESTS SOME PRINCIPLES BY WHICH CURRICULUM PROBLEMS MIGHT BE SOLVED. SOLUTIONS MUST BE DEVELOPED TO DEAL WITH SUCH CURRICULUM ISSUES AS (1) CULTURE-UTILITY, (2) GENERALITY-SPECIFICITY, (3) ELECTIVE-PRESCRIBED, (4) STUDENT ORIENTED-SUBJECT ORIENTED, (5) DISCIPLINE…

Women's studies are now an established element in the adult education curriculum; men's studies have yet to become so. The author discusses some of the reasons for this and mentions some of the developments in exploring the role of men in society. (Author)

These guidelines were developed to serve two curriculum development needs: a guide for schools, communities, departments, and school districts interested in updating their programs; and, a baseline from which to move in creative directions beyond what most regard as modern and innovative (Author/VW)

The intent of the Urban Environmental Studies Curriculum Project, funded by an ESEA Title III grant, was to develop and implement curriculum for an urban oriented environmental studies Program within Special School District 1, Minneapolis Public Schools which would utilize the environment, involve students in investigations and experiences to…

Asserts that a humanistically oriented school, at any level, must be committed to human values over and above narrower nationalistic ones because of the unique political human advanture that the U. S. represents; and that we must be clear about the nature of knowledge in order to deal with curriculum design and evaluation. (Author/JM)

Futures study is a forward-looking equivalent of history--not predicting the future, but attempting to discipline our anticipations of the future (or of a future) as we perceive it now. This paper investigates the extent to which futures study shares with history and comparative study an empirical, as distinct from normative, starting point for…

After discussions of the purposes of evaluation, and integrated curricula, three curriculum analysis systems are described: the Curriculum Materials Analysis System, the Sussex Scheme for the Analysis of Curriculum Materials, and the Curriculum Materials Analysis System for Science. (BW)

Identifies problems which would be brought about by the adoption of a core curriculum, including ideological and political bias and impossibility of agreement on a sensible curriculum basis. (Author/DB)