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Dickens, Siobhan – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
This paper reports a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) exploring the nature, causes and epistemic effects of knowledge recontextualization in the 'official' Key Stage Five History curriculum in England. "Recontextualization" refers to inevitable changes that occur to knowledge as it is 'pedagogized', due to the value-laden practices and…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Epistemology, National Curriculum
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Persianis, Panayiotis – Cogent Education, 2021
The aim of this paper is to present and explain the long and bitter contestation between two poles over the orientation, the aims and the content of education as well as the form of the Greek language to be used in the school textbooks. During the last seventy years (1750-1821) of the Ottoman rule of Greece the poles were cultural but were…
Descriptors: Greek, Textbooks, Educational History, Social Systems
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Kirsten, Nils – Education Inquiry, 2019
This study examined how teachers relate literacy teaching to their ordinary subject teaching in professional development settings. The study is conducted within the large Swedish professional development program the Literacy Boost (in Swedish "Läslyftet"), which can be viewed as an example of an international focus on reading ability…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions
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Grunert, Horst; Spillmann, Hans Otto – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Curriculum Development, Descriptive Linguistics
Pennycook, Alastair – Hong Kong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1994
A discussion of the teaching of English for academic purposes (EAP) focuses on criticism that the content of such courses is thin and that they are offered as a service to other disciplines. It is proposed that the emphasis of EAP instruction be shifted to the role English plays as a medium for conveying meaning to the ways in which English is…
Descriptors: Course Content, Cultural Context, Educational Objectives, English for Academic Purposes
Racle, G. – 1979
The determination of Objectives conditions the choice of materials, methods, and evaluation of results in all stages of foreign language learning. The first level is a necessary foundation, but by itself is insufficient for the study of literature or for communication purposes in a new linguistic milieu. The fundamental notion of language styles…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Educational Objectives
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Freihoff, Roland; Takala, Sauli – 1974
Under a contract with the Ministry of Education the working party prepared a general system for describing language teaching objectives to be used in higher education. The system is based on the specification of language use situations. By means of it the course objectives may be described in the form of communicative tasks, which the students are…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Cultural Awareness, Descriptive Linguistics