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Chan, Chitat; Ting, Wai-Fong – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
This study explores whether the deficit approach to understanding youth, which has been widely critiqued in contemporary youth studies, could still be a dominant paradigm in an emerging curriculum which emphasises multiple-perspective thinking. The analysis compares the representations of youth in selected reference sources at different levels of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Negative Attitudes, Models
Halliwell, Gail, Ed. – 1977
This booklet presents a discussion of the use of an open framework approach to curriculum development for children aged 4 to 8. The material was developed during a seminar (sponsored by the Queensland, Australia, Department of Education) focusing on the curriculum development approach developed by David Weikart in the High/Scope Educational…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Educational Theories
Sullivan, Edmund – 1974
This paper describes a research project in which a moral education curriculum was incorporated into primary and secondary school classrooms in four schools in the Toronto area. The background theory which is presented is developmental in perspective. The interactionist viewpoint, an important aspect of the theory, states that development is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmental Psychology, Educational Experiments, Educational Needs
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Dittmer, Allan; And Others – Equity and Excellence, 1993
Provides a framework for observing and supporting the development of students as constructivist teachers, especially during their field placements as student teachers. The instructional shift to a constructivist approach is described, and guiding principles and possible indicators of the constructivist model are presented. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development