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Agustin Martin G. Rodriguez – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
The Philippine educational system and its core curriculum is oriented toward the formation of the modern, autonomous, rational subject, particularly one that will fit into the contemporary global market and production system. Through this system, Filipinos are deepening the colonization of their rationalities and subjectivities by imposing a…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Western Civilization, Well Being, Foreign Countries
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Marjorie Thomas – British Journal of Special Education, 2025
Wales is in the middle of a fundamental reform of its curriculum and consequent assessment design. There is a welcome broadening of the range of subjects offered at levels 1 and 2, yet the notion that some subjects are more important than others persists. Furthermore, the 'core' subjects of language, mathematics and science are seeing the biggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, National Curriculum, Core Curriculum
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Jan Löfström – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2025
The paper discusses the Finnish core curriculum (curriculum framework) for basic education, with focus on how lower secondary education in general, and history teaching specifically, is meant to develop the student's democratic citizenship. Developing the student's democratic citizenship is not an explicit aim of history teaching in the current…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship, History Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Andrew Skourdoumbis; Emma Rowe – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
The paper studies the rise of neuroscience in initial teacher education, paying attention to the relatively recent Australian Government (2023) report titled 'Strong Beginnings'. In taking up a critical policy sociology lens, we focus on the first priority within the reforms, which is mandating brain science and the 'brain and learning' as core…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Change, Neurosciences, Core Curriculum
Fred Dervin; Kaisa Hahl – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper addresses 'distractions' in the way English language education is discussed and practiced in one of the most debated systems of education in the world today: Finnish primary education. Distractions are considered as 'makers of disturbance' in educational ideologies by the authors. Examining the 2014 National Core Curriculum and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), National Curriculum