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Sengai, Walter; Mokhele, Matseliso L. – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of teachers on the development and implementation process of the History 2167 syllabus reform in Zimbabwe. Successful implementation of syllabus reforms depends on teachers' ownership and knowledge about the reform ideas. Teachers are the closest individuals to the circumstances of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Course Descriptions, Teacher Role
Simon Choat; Christina Wolf; Siobhan O'Neill – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This article explores initiatives to decolonise the curriculum via two specific disciplines, namely Economics and Politics, both of which have tended to marginalise the study of race, empire, and colonialism and whose canonical thinkers are overwhelming white. By providing the first comparative analysis of decolonising initiatives in these…
Descriptors: Universities, Decolonization, Economics Education, Political Science
Shawn Guard Lady Pennell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study is to explore why academic faculty opt to incorporate service-learning into their coursework for students and how individual spirituality at work contributes to SL design in experiences. A qualitative single case study design was used. Publicly available documents, syllabi, and semi-structured interviews with 20 previous…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Faculty, Religious Factors, Teacher Attitudes
Tsiane, Mahlompho Retselisitsoe; Motebang, Bonane – Cogent Education, 2023
The purpose of this study is to gain insight into teachers' interpretation of the accounting syllabus key components so that the alignment with the syllabus design orientation meant to address the accounting curriculum goals can be deciphered. The theory of curriculum orientation was employed as a lens through which the data were generated and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Course Descriptions, Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum Design
Graham F. Hunter – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
Utilizing interviews with 44 full-time HESA faculty members, this study explores how they describe planning for individual courses. Findings suggest a model of course planning in which faculty members enter the process with particular beliefs and then make decisions as they consider existing syllabi, course objectives, course content, and student…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Courses, Course Descriptions, Course Content
Svalina, Vesna; Šimunovic, Zrinka – Music Education Research, 2023
Croatian music education is implemented within the national education system. In this research, we focused on secondary education, or, more precisely, on teachers who work in Specialised music schools -- independent institutions that prepare students for higher education in the field of music. The national curriculum for art education in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Music Education, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education
Philangani Sibiya; Patrick Ngulube – Education for Information, 2024
Education curricula need constant updates in response to job market requirements, which may be influenced by the changing technological environment. In the library and information science (LIS) job market there are dynamics brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). These dynamics call for LIS schools to reconsider their curricula in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Science, Information Science, Curriculum Development
Kaela Jubas; Donna Rooney; Francesca Patten – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This article discusses findings from an ongoing qualitative studies about the incorporation of popular culture in university-based professional education. The focus is on how popular culture can become a curricular resource to support learning about theory or concepts and contentious or sensitive issues, at a time when neoliberal trends of…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Popular Culture, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
Munro, Robert – Film Education Journal, 2023
This case study reflects on the first iteration of a new course in film education, titled Introduction to Film Education, which ran for the first time at Queen Margaret University in Scotland in 2021. It considers the upskilling of both teachers and film education practitioners in film education, while reflecting upon the co-creation of a film…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Film Study, Universities, Course Descriptions
Lambrecht, Kathryn; Sweeney, Meghan A.; Detweiler, Jane – Journal of General Education, 2019
Despite efforts of both administration and faculty, the intent and the execution of new curricular initiatives are not always in alignment. To understand how the declaration of a campus-wide general education initiative was being implemented, this article combines analyses of syllabi and courses from across disciplines. In an initial review, the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Higher Education, General Education
Smaill, Esther; Darr, Charles – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2020
In February 2020, the Ministry of Education asked the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) to examine the curriculum-levelling construct that sits at the heart of The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007). A key goal of the research was to investigate, whether-- and if so, how--the construct helps (or hinders)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Program Development
Rachel Elizabeth Corrigan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Social studies education has traditionally aimed to foster productive citizens. However, recent societal polarizations have added complexity to this objective (Levy et al., 2023). Amid these challenges, understanding remains limited regarding how teacher preparation programs are adapting their social studies methods curriculum. Grounded in…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teaching Methods
Addisu, Kumsa Megersa; Wudu, Melese Tarekegne – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the practice of preschool curriculum implementation in selected woredas of South West Shoa Zone. For this study, descriptive survey research design was used. Data were gathered from 49 O-Class, 9 kindergartens, 192 teachers, 58 principals, 12 cluster supervisors and 4 woreda education experts. The…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes
Hye Yeon Park; Carlos V. Licon; Jennifer Givens; Ole Russell Sleipness – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the integration of education for sustainable development (ESD) into landscape architecture (LA) programs in North American universities to understand its benefits and challenges and provide insights into the implementation of sustainability principles, pedagogies and teaching methods.…
Descriptors: Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Course Descriptions, Sustainability
Akbay, Ahu; Cesur, Kürsat – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
Turkish Council of Higher Education (CoHE) has updated the curriculums of teaching programmes recently by increasing the percentage of the elective courses. This change became the focus of this study. The study aims to find out the four most preferred General Knowledge (GK) elective courses among English language teachers and the criteria that…
Descriptors: Elective Courses, English (Second Language), Course Descriptions, Preservice Teacher Education