"What is a fandom, and why do fandoms matter for school?" Fandoms are passionate communities dedicated to appreciating and engaging with texts of interest (movies, TV shows, books, bands, brands, sports teams, etc.) via personally and communally meaningful literacy practices. It is increasingly obvious that scripted literacy curricula…

The world is undergoing a major transformation that requires new skills and qualifications, new ways for people to know about skills and qualifications, and new ways to acquire skills and qualifications. This toolkit is about skills and qualifications, and the benefits they provide for people in a changing environment. It focuses specifically on…

The "Australian Curriculum: History" has emerged out of a neoliberal federal education policy landscape. This is a policy landscape where pragmatic and performative, rather than pedagogic concerns are clearly foregrounded, and this has implications for curriculum development and implementation. A useful way to conceptualise the features,…

Innovation is essential for the education sector. The ways in which curriculum decision making is organised reflects different implicit approaches on how educational systems pertain to promote innovation in education. Curriculum holds an outstanding place when seeking to promote innovation in education, as it reflects the vision for education by…

This study examines apparently similar historical phenomena in 19th-century Prussia and Switzerland: the establishment of modern foreign languages in the curriculum of upper-secondary education. Through the course of the 19th century, there appear to have been great transnational European affinities with regard to both the differentiation of the…

The purposes and effectiveness of driver education courses in the public high schools are discussed. (MM)

In this yearbook, a group of scholars have written articles designed to present new insights into curriculum development and to push thinking beyond traditional frontiers. Each writer has placed emphasis on those facets of his field which he deems most significant. Paired with each of these presentations is a chapter in which a curriculum…

Characterizes a range of approaches taken by technology education teachers in determining curriculum content and teaching methods. Identifies 26 stereotypical answers to the question "How is the curricular content in your technology education program determined?" (Author/JOW)

Discusses implementation problems of the proposed N and F chemistry curriculum into British comprehensive schools. (MLH)

Overall issues examined include weekly lesson assignment sheets, aids to learning, levels of abstraction, and grading. The modification of existing curriculum is treated in terms of class structure and content. Changing the existing curriculum is discussed in terms of class structure, curriculum content, task hierarchies, and socialization. (DLS)

This volume is a collection of position papers, each of which develops an intellectual framework for teaching a particular subject-matter discipline within an environmental context. The subject matter areas included are political science, health education, language or communication arts, art, science, mathematics, and social studies. (DT)

Reviews the history of proposals for change in the sixth form curriculum (for 16-19 year-old students) in Great Britain, specifically concerning the proposals for N and F level examinations. (MLH)

Suggests approaches to curriculum production and their application to in-service training of curriculum developers. Also discusses experiences of developing the Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) materials. (MLH)

Discusses ways to improve physics curricula, such as including events from science history and using discovery techniques. (MLH)

The author compares syllabus outlines for the 5-year grammar school course (Grades 8-12 equivalent) in West Africa, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and concludes that a national directive on history syllabus similar to that of Britain and the U.S. is needed including aims of history teaching in Nigeria. (JT)