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Sundby, Anniken Hotvedt; Karseth, Berit – Curriculum Journal, 2022
'The knowledge question', addressing what students need to know and learn, becomes particularly relevant during the process of a new school reform. This paper examines the political messages and the role of knowledge in the current curriculum reform initiative for primary and secondary education in Norway (2020). The study is based on a document…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Course Content, Competency Based Education
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Svobodová, Hana; Durna, Radek; Mísarová, Darina; Hofmann, Eduard – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2021
This study was designed to analyse the way in which outdoor education (OE) is implemented at selected elementary schools providing the primary and lower secondary education. To understand the status of OE in the Czechia, a formal framework for implementing OE in national and school curriculum is described in the introduction. The first phase of…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Content Analysis, Curriculum Development
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Aikens, Kathleen; McKenzie, Marcia – Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
The aim of this study was to better understand how Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) policy has been developed and mobilized across subnational contexts in a federated system. We undertook a comparative analysis of sustainability-specific policy and curricula documents from all Canadian provinces and territories. We identified three…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Environmental Education, Educational Policy, Sustainability
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Ozturk-Akar, Ebru – Curriculum Journal, 2023
Turkey's politically induced 'curricular modernization initiative' intended a philosophical change and a system-level transformation from behaviouristic to constructivist-inspired pedagogies in the early 2000s. Science curriculum has been one of the curricula that has taken precedence. It has changed four times since then. The latest science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Curriculum Development, Political Influences, Educational Philosophy
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Pala, Senol Mail; Basibuyuk, Adem – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2020
Map skills are included in the curriculum of different courses in basic education and secondary education, although they are more involved in the Social Sciences Curriculum (SSC) and Geography Curriculum (GC). Based on this situation, the research aimed at a comparative examination of the mapping skills included in the SSC and GC, which were…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Social Sciences, Map Skills, Comparative Analysis
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Kaufman, Julia H.; Doan, Sy; Fernandez, Maria-Paz – RAND Corporation, 2021
Much research has noted the misalignment between kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) academic standards and curriculum materials used in classrooms. Many states and education organizations have been pushing for greater use of standards-aligned curriculum, especially during the past several years. In this report, the authors share results…
Descriptors: Standards, Alignment (Education), Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials
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Husamah, H.; Suwono, Hadi; Nur, Hadi; Dharmawan, Agus – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
Sustainable development is development that aims to improve the quality of life for all people around the world, both current and future generations. The focus and alignment of researchers on the theme of sustainable development is highly expected, as evidenced by publications in reputable journals, included in educational journals such as Eurasia…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Quality of Life, Journal Articles, Periodicals
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Richards, Jack C.; Pun, Jack – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
The use of English to teach content subjects has been a growing trend in many parts of the world. It is labelled in a variety of ways, such as content-based learning, content and language integrated learning, immersion education, theme-based language teaching, and bilingual education, but it is referred to in this paper as English-medium…
Descriptors: Classification, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Alodat, Ali M.; Momani, Fawwaz A. – Online Submission, 2019
This study aimed to evaluate educational services offered for Syrian gifted refugee students in Jordanian schools from the point of view of schools' principals or educational supervisors. The researchers extracted validity and reliability indicators from the Arabic translated form of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) standards.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Gifted, Validity
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Blow, David; Myers, Helen – Language Learning Journal, 2022
In the high-stakes accountability English educational system, decisions made by government and agencies about curriculum, pedagogy and assessment drive school planning and actions. This paper analyses the drivers for the recent change to French German and Spanish GCSEs and highlights particular areas of the new specification which may damage the…
Descriptors: French, German, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Forsberg, Eva; Nihlfors, Elisabet; Pettersson, Daniel; Skott, Pia – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2017
This article describes the development of the Swedish curriculum-theory tradition with a focus on different curriculum practices, educational message systems, arenas, and curriculum makers. Attention has been paid to different places, spaces, and times in relation to the selection, ordering, and manifestation of knowledge, norms, and values, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Research, Leadership, Educational Theories
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Savage, Glenn C.; O'Connor, Kate – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
This paper provides a comparative analysis of national curriculum reforms in Australia and the USA, set against the backdrop of global trends since the 1980s. The analysis is driven by an interest in the reconstitution of national policy spaces in global times, and draws particularly upon Stephen Carney's notion of "global policy-scapes"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, National Curriculum, Global Approach
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Tan, Charlene – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
This article analyses and compares the motivations and (re)actions of the education authorities and parents in South Korea and mainland China towards schooling reform. The focus is on two policy initiatives -- Free Semester Programme in South Korea and Comprehensive Practical Activity Curriculum in China. Applying the theoretical constructs of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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Reichard, Joshua D. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2016
In context of legal battles over science textbooks in both public and private schools, this empirical case study examines student religiosity scores over a 3-year period following a school-wide curricular change from Christian-published to secular science textbooks in a K-12 Christian private school. The study found no statistically significant…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Science Instruction, Religious Factors, Christianity
Feeley, Christopher J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Since the early 1980s Holocaust education and genocide studies programs at the primary, secondary and post-secondary educational levels have become commonplace and an accepted element of public school curriculum. As these programs and their curricula gained acceptance within public education, efforts to increase awareness of genocidal events…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Death, Jews, European History
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