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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
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Asri Wijayanti; Zamzani; Suhardi – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/Purpose: Indonesian Stand-up Comedy (SUCI) Comics use comedy to articulate concerns on societal issues, hence offering social critique. Abdurrahim Arsyad presented a social critique regarding schooling at the special program "Pahlawan Perlu Tanda Jasa 'Heroes Need Honors' (HNH)". An effective SUCI encompasses the comedians'…
Descriptors: Indonesian, Humor, Discourse Analysis, Social Problems
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Cooling, Trevor – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
In a recent article, L. Philip Barnes critiques the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE) Final Report by scrutinising its text and by responding to my interpretation of that text. His particular, but not exclusive, focus is CoRE's proposal that the idea of worldview should be central to RE. His conclusion is that: 'The collective force of…
Descriptors: Religious Education, World Views, Course Content, Teaching Methods
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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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Barnes, L. Philip – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
This article considers the proposals of the final report of the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE 2018) and its controversial conclusion that the law should require religious education to include teaching about non-religious worldviews alongside religions, presumably in equal measure. Attention is given both to Trevor Cooling's recent…
Descriptors: Religious Education, World Views, Reports, Laws
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O'Connor, Una; Anderson Worden, Elizabeth; Bates, Jessica; Gstrein, Vanessa – Curriculum Journal, 2020
Curriculum change is an intricate, lengthy process, requiring commitment, cooperation and compromise amongst the agencies and stakeholders involved; its development is more complex in divided societies, particularly when the subject content is open to contention. The addition of Local and Global Citizenship (LGC) to the Northern Ireland (NI)…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Criticism, Educational Change
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Driver, Steven – Teaching History, 2020
In his article in this journal just over a year ago, Steven Driver set out his vision for a less myopic range of topics in A-level coursework. In this edition, Driver demonstrates how he has built student enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, a topic which he had previously identified as neglected -- Nicaragua's place within late 19th- and early…
Descriptors: History Instruction, World History, Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement
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Pratt, Nick; Alderton, Julie – Curriculum Journal, 2023
This paper explores how the twin processes of neoliberalism and neoconservatism work together on, and through, curricula and their associated pedagogies. It bridges the gap between policy and classroom practice, focusing on the particular example of the school subject of mathematics and the notion of mastery, operationalised in the English…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Criticism, Mastery Learning, Teaching Methods
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Killick, David – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article presents a critical analysis of key elements within the conference question as the basis for proposals for an inclusive and systematic approach to the development of mainstream disciplinary higher education curricula designed to meet the needs of students and societies in a multicultural globalizing world. The critical analysis…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Curriculum Development, International Education, Educational Strategies
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Burnett, Greg – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Constructive alignment as a way of framing curriculum has wide appeal in many tertiary education contexts. At one Pacific regional tertiary institution, it has recently been embraced as a means toward greater program quality. Its unquestioned acceptance, however, raises the need for critical reflection. This reflection critiques constructive…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Alignment (Education), Educational Quality, Curriculum Development
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Albusaidi, Saud – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2019
This paper presents a critique of an article that explores the internationalisation of the curriculum. First, to facilitate critical reflection, the main Western paradigms of positivism, interpretivism, critical theory and postmodernism are described and the differences between them emphasised. The article focused on in this paper can be situated…
Descriptors: Criticism, International Education, Critical Theory, Educational Philosophy
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Olivey, Jacob – Teaching History, 2021
In this article, Jacob Olivey describes his department's efforts to both diversify their Key Stage 3 curriculum and secure greater curricular coherence. Building on a large body of research and practice, Olivey sought new forms of curricular coherence through the selection and sequencing of substantive content across the curriculum. He reflects on…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Departments, Course Content
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Sen, Abdulkerim – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2020
In an effort to support the curricular institutionalisation of human rights education (HRE) as a school subject, Walter Parker has proposed a curriculum model based on the powerful knowledge (PK) thesis developed by a group of social realist educators. This article aims to contribute to this worthwhile endeavour to develop a consensual HRE…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Incidence
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Bodart, Cristiano das Neves; Pires, Welkson – Journal of Social Science Education, 2023
Purpose: This article presents the place and the role of Sociology teaching in the current Brazilian context, marked by the rise of extreme right ideologies and practices, more specifically by its ultraliberal economic bias and moral conservatism. Design/methodology/approach: Organized in three parts, it outlines, respectively, the macro political…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Moral Values, Sociology, Teaching Methods
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Mulcahy, Dianne – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
The aim of this article is to explore the worth of a materialist/posthumanist approach to ethics, specifically affirmative ethics (Braidotti, 2018, 2019a), within the field of education. I work empirical material that 'does' this ethics in classrooms and draw on Deleuze's (1988) ethically guided materialism as taken up by Braidotti (2019b), to…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Barriers, Teaching Methods
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