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Gábor Szabó-Zsoldos – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
Toppling the statue of the slave merchant Edward Colston in Bristol, removing the monuments of King Leopold II from public places in Belgium, Black Lives Matter protests, and mass demonstrations targeting remembrance of certain chapters of the history of the Global North -- these are some of the significant events that drew attention to the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Decolonization, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Sanna Honkimäki; Päivikki Jääskelä; Päivi Tynjälä – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Current global drivers have challenged higher education and increased institution-wide top-down managed reforms, including curriculum reforms. As academics are vital in curriculum development, listening to their voices is essential for understanding actors' experiences of curriculum change processes in top-down managed reforms. The present study…
Descriptors: Educational Change, College Faculty, College Administration, Criticism
Terry Locke – Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 2023
Chapter 4, "Indigeneity and sense of place" begins by addressing the problematic concept of indigeneity, noting that an official definition of "indigenous" is yet to be adopted by any UN agency owing to the diversity of indigenous peoples. The thesis of this chapter is that there are commonalities in respect of sense of place…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, International Organizations, Land Settlement, Colonialism
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Kathleen F. Malu; Mary Beth Schaefer; Bogum Yoon – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2024
In an effort to advance the middle school movement, this paper examines the research trends from three organizations that support middle grades educational innovation, assessment, and research: The Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Educational Testing Service, and the Institute of Education Sciences. Using an instrumental, multiple case study…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Educational Research, Trend Analysis, Statistical Analysis
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Aleksandra Gawel; Marta Giovannetti; Grazia Li Pomi; Magdalena Stefanska; Iwona Olejnik; Barbara Kulaga; Elena Cedrola – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Universities should increasingly collaborate with industries and international counterparts to meet the needs of students, businesses and other stakeholders. However, the literature has not provided a comprehensive response to these aspects of curriculum development. This study has two objectives: to propose a method of curriculum content…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, College Curriculum, Higher Education, Universities
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Peter Woelert; Lesley Vidovich; Thomas O'Donoghue – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
Curriculum has become a core element of universities' competitive positioning, internationally and nationally. This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of policy processes and outcomes associated with 'radical' university curriculum reforms that resulted in divergence from institutions' own historical patterns and national conventions and…
Descriptors: Universities, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Honkimäki, Sanna; Jääskelä, Päivikki; Kratochvil, Joachim; Tynjälä, Päivi – European Journal of Higher Education, 2022
This study examines academic staff's perceptions of a university-wide, top-down curriculum reform in terms of the management of the reform, the support provided by the university's administration, and the utilisation of the university's guidelines. Differences between faculties are also scrutinised. The study was conducted at a multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Change, College Curriculum
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Olsson, Erik J. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Decolonisation aims at exposing the ills of colonialism in an attempt to undo their long-standing effects. Important criticism of curriculum decolonisation has focused on potential conflicts with academic freedom. However, this criticism has to some extent suffered from a perceived lack of agreement on the concept and status of academic freedom…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Universities, International Organizations, Foreign Countries
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Craig, Cheryl J.; Li, Jing; Kelley, Michaelann – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
This inquiry explores the scholarly influence of Elliot Eisner by examining how ideas derived from his scholarship have spread. The study begins with Eisner's bio-sketch and a literature review on the history of ideas and the use of knowledge in education, followed by descriptions of this paper's research method and data sources. The analysis…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Art, Aesthetics, Research Methodology
Emily Mae Kaplitz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There has been an increase of both neurodivergent students and enrollment in Computer Science programs in higher education. These increases have brought attention to two separate challenges: neurodivergent college students struggle more compared to their neurotypical peers and many students struggle in introductory computer science courses. This…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Neurological Impairments, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Ksenia Filatov – History of Education Review, 2024
Purpose: In January 2021, the state government of NSW, Australia, announced that all year 9 and 10 elective courses developed by schools will be phased out. This paper offers a brief historical account of school-developed board-endorsed courses (SDBECs) in NSW and a close analysis of the policy to phase them out. Design/methodology/approach: I…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elective Courses, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Polikoff, Morgan – Harvard Education Press, 2021
"Beyond Standards" highlights the structural conditions that have undermined the success of the standards movement and challenges us to confront them. The book offers an impassioned argument about the ways that our decentralized educational systems undermine the pursuit of educational equity and excellence. Morgan Polikoff applies a wide…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Equal Education, Administrative Organization, Educational Quality
Sailer, John D. – National Association of Scholars, 2023
This study of the University of Texas (UT) at Austin surveys the most influential policies enacted on campus in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). This report compiles and examines the university's DEI plans, its progress updates, and all of the publicly accessible DEI plans and updates published by the university's various…
Descriptors: School Policy, Diversity, Equal Education, Inclusion
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Newton, Nigel – Curriculum Journal, 2020
Following trends across the developed world to devolve power and responsibility for public services to more local agencies, curriculum reforms in several countries have been characterised by policies designed to increase teacher agency and professionalism as a means of achieving successful change. In Wales, this approach has been promoted through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Professionalism
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Smalley, Paul – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2023
This paper critically examines the White Paper, "Opportunity for all," published by the UK Government's Department for Education (DfE) in March 2022. This has a number of recommendations for schools in an attempt to 'level up'. In particular, there is a promise to deliver 'a fully trust-led system with a single regulatory approach [and]…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Religious Education, Curriculum Development, Trust (Psychology)
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