The aim of this paper is to examine key change vectors shaping the undergraduate curriculum in the third decade of the twenty-first century. The paper begins by outlining selected definitions, foundational theories and conceptual frameworks underpinning this analysis of the undergraduate curriculum and its influences. Three key external forces…

Policies concerning language and culture are integral to the translators' work as they are an intrinsic part of the translation process. Thus, it becomes necessary to include a good bit of what could be referred to as 'policy cognizance', which could be defined as an understanding of the policies that mold the practice spanning from historical…

This case study examines the methods I used to carry out my PhD field research in 2010 and 2011 on the modernization of the educational system in Bhutan. Distinguishing educational modernization in Bhutan is the state policy of Gross National Happiness, which shows powerful aspirations toward conserving 'traditional' knowledge and values while…

The Foundation Phase is a Welsh Government flagship policy of early years education (for 3-7 year-old children) in Wales. Marking a radical departure from the more formal, competency-based approach associated with the previous Key Stage 1 National Curriculum, it advocates a developmental, experiential, play-based approach to teaching and learning.…

The author claims that the UK coalition government's White Paper, entitled the Importance of Teaching, continues to polarise curriculum and pedagogical thinking in England into subject-centred versus child-centred camps and in doing so takes sides with the former. He argues that government reports--such as Hadow, Spens and Norwood--have been…

The delivery of nursing care is enmeshed in the health care policy decisions made at state and national levels. The authors recommend an advanced practice role for nurse policy analysts, examine political decision-making processes that would be included in the curriculum, and give illustrative positions that graduate nurse policy analysts might…

Describes the content of a health policy course designed to meet the needs of nurses and identifies strategies to make the course meaningful for students. (Author)

Presents a critical commentary on "Toward an Aristocracy of Everyone" by Parker and Zumeta in the same issue. Comments on the strengths and weaknesses of proposals for public policy curricula in high schools, especially as they are able to contribute to citizenship education. Parker and Zumeta respond to these observations. (DSK)

This document contains six papers presented at a conference on Science and Public Policy in the American University, held at Indiana University, March 20-22, 1968. The purpose of the conference was to report results of curriculum development in science and to examine issues and problems of science policy. All six papers included address topics of…

Policy research, the systematic analysis of public policies, is applicable to undergraduate study because it develops interdisciplinary skills, and creates a program through which students and faculty members can cooperate in attempting to solve crucial social problems. (Author/PG)

Reviews developments in technical and vocational education in South Africa: National Qualifications Framework, Curriculum 2005,and enterprise development. Addresses issues of articulation, funding, and market responsiveness. Concludes that practices might be imposed from above and government agencies do not yet have the capacity to develop and…

The development of a legislative advocacy course, based on the view that a curriculum for introducing law students to policy making should consider important issues of professional responsibility in the interaction between legal political processes, is described. (MSE)

Considers the interconnection of curriculum problems and the processes by which they are treated and argues that much is to be gained by seeing curriculum problems and processes as instances of much wider sets of problems and processes generally belonging in the area of public policymaking. (Author/MLF)

In 1983, Missouri home economists developed a "White Paper," a policy statement that integrated national and state goals for family life education. A program planning tool, the white paper was recently revised to reflect current problems, accountability demands, and changes in resource allocation. (SK)

The last 2 decades of curriculum policy in Australia are reviewed in this paper, with a focus on reforms concerned with females and schooling. Two general areas are examined: (1) the theoretical relationship between state power and feminist concerns about schooling; and (2) the progressive direction for schooling. The first section compares two…