As an entitlement to rights, well-being and equity, young children's citizenship lays the foundation for a democratic, just and sustainable world. This article interrogates the discursive constructions of 'citizenship' within recent early childhood curriculum documents in China and Aotearoa New Zealand. Since the 1990s, both nations have released…

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the discourses of democratic values in the last Spanish curriculum of history education. The procedure analysis is a CDA (critical discourse analysis) following Wodak's methodology and an "ad hoc" instrument focusing on the description of the ideological perspectives in the curricula, the…

This study analysis the role of Pakistan's National Curriculum textbooks in normalising religious-based construction and demonisation of the 'other'. Specifically, it examines textbooks issued by Federal Textbook Board for high school students using thematic content analysis. The research aims to investigate the portrayal of religious-based…

It is widely acknowledged that anthropogenic climate change is already having severe adverse effects on our planet and poses an existential threat to many species, including our own. National curricula and schools and other formal educational settings have been slow to address the issue of climate change, despite the deep traction that it has with…

Achieving gender equity in education is essential for national development, yet history education often reinforces gender bias. This study examines gender mainstreaming in the curriculum of Indonesian history, comparing the 2013 Curriculum and the Merdeka Curriculum through Nancy Fraser's social justice framework on redistribution, recognition,…

This paper presents the findings from the initial stage of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project which examines the pedagogic practices that embed young children's participative rights in lower primary classrooms in Wales. An evaluation of relevant legislation and policy in Wales from 2000 to 2022 was undertaken to…

This article explores the underpinning assumptions about the changing definition and parameters of early reading that are contained in successive UK Departments for Education (DfE, DfES, DfEE) documentation since 1995 and in Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills) reports and official blogs during the same…

Critical and creative thinking (CCT) was introduced as a General Capability in the Australian Curriculum in 2010, heralded as a call for more explicit teaching of CCT. This study was an online survey of 259 Australian teachers, exploring how they have adopted CCT as curriculum, including how confident they feel about this area of their teaching…

This study aims to examine the evolution and transformation of instructional methods in Turkish Language Curricula between 1926 and 2024. Utilizing a qualitative research design within the framework of the document analysis method, the study analyzes primary and secondary level Turkish language curricula published in the years 1926, 1929, 1930,…

Comprehensive Sexuality Education has been acknowledged globally for its role in advancing young people's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Yet, notable variation exists in definitions and interpretations of what comprehensive means, exposing tensions between international and local values and agendas. This research focused on the…

This study examines the intersections of historical and democratic consciousness in Ghana's pre-tertiary curriculum framework and primary school history curriculum. The study adopts a critical discourse analysis approach drawing on the work of Wodak to analyse the curriculum documents. Findings show that democratic and historical consciousness is…

This study examined the perception of educational quality among grade 8 and grade 9 students in Vietnamese public secondary schools. The researchers employed a quantitative approach to examine the students' perceptions of educational quality. Convenience sampling was utilized to select participants with 1644 grade 8 students and 2602 grade 9…

In 2020, a new curriculum, Kunnskapsløftet 2020 (LK20), was introduced in Norwegian schools. This study investigated how physical education (PE) teachers in upper secondary schools have changed their assessment practice following the introduction of LK20. To achieve this, nine individual in-depth interviews were conducted with PE teachers from six…

Natural hazards pose global risks making it essential to incorporate risk perception and response strategies into science curricula. This study analyzed the distribution of risk perception and response indicators for natural hazards--including earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, landslides, floods, droughts, volcanoes, wildfires, storms, and extreme…

This paper presents findings from a review of 19 national curriculum policy frameworks (NCPFs) across the globe and discusses dominant and culturally specific discourses that shape early childhood education (ECE). We combine two frameworks of developmental universality and specificity and culturally contextualised pedagogy to explore whether and…