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Anderson, Charles; McCune, Velda – Curriculum Journal, 2013
This article considers how best to conceptualise higher education curricula in a world marked by uncertainty, where knowledge and the foundations of knowledge are strongly contested. We then draw on conceptions of agency that derive from socio-cultural theorising to consider what "tools" for thinking and practising individuals may need to deploy…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Sociocultural Patterns
Moore, Gwen – Music Education Research, 2012
Within a theoretical framework drawn from Bourdieu, this article explores the relationship between undergraduate students' experiences of music in higher education and their musical backgrounds and prior music education experiences. More critically, this study aims to discover whether ideologies surrounding musical value impact on the student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Music Education, Prior Learning
Wynn, Dudley – J Higher Educ, 1970
Discussion of the need for innovation in the university world. (IR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Higher Education

Canda, Edward R. – Journal of Social Work Education, 1989
A rationale and methodology for teaching about the spiritual and religious aspects of human behavior in social work curricula is presented. An approach derived from the field of comparative religious studies is described, and its implications for the personal and professional preparation of the social work educator are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Professional Education

Martin, Ruth – Journal of Social Work Education, 1987
Oral history is a useful research and teaching tool for integrating Black content in social work education facilitating knowledge-building, professional values, and a forum for testing professional skills and expanding teaching and research methodology. Examples of objectives and learning activities are provided. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Smith, John Kares – 1986
True "liberal learning" often occurs far from our campuses and direct influence. The Ladakhi, a non-western culture located between Tibet, China, and Pakistan, passed on "liberal learning" as part of its communal experience. The Ladakhis were wealthy, self-sufficient, lived in roomy houses, had zero "gross national…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Lister, Larry – Journal of Social Work Education, 1987
Various sources are explored to determine what content should be provided, and issues to consider when building ethnocultural content into the curriculum are described. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships, Curriculum Development, Ethnic Relations

Gitterman, Alex; Germain, Carel B. – Journal of Education for Social Work, 1981
An ecological perspective on social work practice underscores the need for a dual or holistic focus on people and environments. Concepts and principles regarding the dynamic environment are developing in organizational theory, social network theory, environmental psychology, and social work and can be applied to social work education. (MSE)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intervention
Nardi, Elena; Jaworski, Barbara J. – 2002
This paper reports from a research project at Oxford in the UK that focused (a) on university mathematics teachers' conceptualizations of first-year undergraduate teaching related to observation of their teaching; and (b) on issues relating the conceptualizations to mathematics as a discipline. This research builds on a qualitative study of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
1997
This Fulbright Summer Seminar focused on the environmental challenge posed by Colombia's biodiversity and addressed the relationship between the last decade of Colombian economic development and the country's sociocultural situation, taking into account its historical background and the role of natural resources in a context of sustainable…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Biodiversity, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Popkewitz, Thomas S. – 1985
Efforts to reform teacher education should include careful reconsideration of what teachers learn about curriculum design and instructional methodology. The selection and organization of school knowledge have significant social, political, and ethical implications that are ignored by traditional, rationalistic assumptions about educational…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Association of American Universities, Washington, DC. – 1982
A 1981 Wingspread conference on the implications of the new scholarship on women for the traditional goals and assumptions of liberal education also addresses possibilities and imperatives for curricular and institutional change. After an introduction by Anne Fuller, papers by three women's studies scholars are presented. "Feminist…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Females

Green, Jill – Journal of Dance Education, 2002
Explores applications of somatics to school and university curricula, addressing somatic knowledge as content and methodology in dance education, proposing strategies for bringing the body back into dance and dance curricula, exploring cultural diversity issues within dance and somatic education, and concluding that somatic knowledge and practice…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development

Fehr, Dennis E. – Studies in Art Education, 1994
Contends that postmodernism has influenced profoundly the direction of visual art in contemporary society. However, art education has not been affected by these social and philosophical changes. Summarizes components of postmodernism and defines connections between them and the art education field. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives

Fagan, Ronald W.; DeVries, Raymond G. – American Sociologist, 1994
Contends that religion has played a significant role in the founding and development of higher education. Reports on a study of the sociodemographic and educational background characteristics of sociologists teaching in 31 colleges belonging to the Christian College Coalition. (CFR)
Descriptors: Christianity, Church Related Colleges, Curriculum Development, Higher Education