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Murphy, Frances; Parker, Melissa – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2023
Despite the potential magnitude of the influence of teacher educators on school curriculum, Ball et al. (2011). Policy actors: Doing policy work in schools. "Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 32"(4), 625-639. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2011.601565) argue that teacher educators are frequently excluded from…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Curriculum Development
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Kuen-Yi Lin; Chih-Jung Ku; Hsiu-Tien Wei; Kuang-Chao Yu; P. John Williams – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
Background: A key research gap in current STEM education lies in the need for a more in-depth exploration of STEM teachers as curriculum designers, particularly in how they collaborate in designing STEM curricula and their roles within that process. This study selected two high-performing STEM teaching teams for investigation and employed a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Teacher Collaboration
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Tronsmo, Eli – Curriculum Journal, 2020
In a time of strong focus on school development, teachers' work is increasingly linked to a variety of actors, organisations and stakeholders with different agendas and suggestions for school improvements. This paper explores the different actor constellations that teachers engage with in collaborative knowledge work and the opportunities and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teacher Responsibility, Teacher Collaboration, Secondary School Teachers
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Zhang, Liman; Tan, Yuen Sze Michelle; Adler, Douglas James – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2023
We examined the possibilities of employing collaborative action research (CAR) to promote Mainland Chinese secondary school teachers' engagement with the recent curriculum reform. A brief background of the history of the examination culture and the curriculum reform is provided. We analysed key challenges leading to teachers' resistance to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participatory Research, Action Research, Secondary School Teachers
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Moorhouse, Benjamin Luke; Lee, Jonathan; Herd, Simon – Learning: Research and Practice, 2021
This small-scale exploratory study explores the practices and experiences of two experienced Hong Kong Education Bureau Advisory Teachers (ATs) engaged in school-based professional support (SBPS) of teachers during school closure caused the COVID-19 pandemic. It documents the ATs usual practices, conditions for effective SBPS, the effect the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Faculty Development
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, 2020
Research confirms what effective educators and policymakers know from practice: The implementation of a "high-quality" curriculum, aligned to rigorous state standards, leads to notable student learning gains. Yet less than half of teachers report they are using curricula that are "high-quality and well aligned to learning…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Development, Barriers
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Tahirsylaj, Armend; Smith, William C.; Khan, Gulab; Wermke, Wieland – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2021
The present article investigates the construction of a 'global' teacher identity by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) since the introduction of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) in 2008. We critically examine TALIS-related conceptual frameworks, survey questionnaires and statistically driven…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Administrator Surveys, Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes
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Buli-Holmberg, Jorun; Nilsen, Sven; Skogen, Kjell – International Journal of Special Education, 2019
The main issue of this article is inclusive education for pupils with special educational needs (SEN). Inclusion in our study focuses on three core areas: the role of the school leaders, the role of teachers and the practice of curriculum planning. The results are based on interviews with school leaders and teachers in Norwegian primary and lower…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Students with Disabilities, School Culture
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Bouckaert, Marina; Kools, Quinta – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Teacher educators arguably fulfil several roles in their professional context: they can be seen as role models or teachers of teachers, and have additionally been characterised as researchers, mentors, gatekeepers, brokers, and curriculum developers. To address a perceived gap in the literature on the latter role, a quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Curriculum Development, Teacher Developed Materials, Teacher Role
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Singh-Pillay, Asheena; Samuel, Michael Anthony – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
This article probes teacher responses to three curricular reform initiatives from a South African situated contextual perspective. It focuses on Life Sciences teachers who have initially reported feeling overwhelmed by this rapidly changing curriculum environment: adopting and re-adapting to the many expected shifts. The research question posed…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Science Teachers, Faculty Development, Curriculum Development
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Huckle, John – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2019
Geographical knowledge is powerful if it is critical and empowering. This article develops this argument with reference to the philosophy of knowledge and Laura Wheelahan's advocacy of critical realism as the philosophical strand of her social realist curriculum theory. While the GeoCapabilities Project has drawn on the sociological strand of that…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Realism, Educational Philosophy, Teacher Role
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Darling, Ruth – Journal of General Education, 2015
In this essay, I explore the idea that "academic" advisers are "academics" who play a major role in connecting the general education curriculum to the students' experience as well as connecting the faculty to the students' holistic experience of the curriculum. The National Academic Advising Association Concept of Academic…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Faculty, Teacher Role, General Education
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Ormond, Barbara Mary – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
This paper explores the challenges for teachers in positioning them as independent curriculum makers. History teachers in New Zealand have recently entered uncharted territory with the abandonment of prescribed topics for history and a new-found authority to determine the selection of historical knowledge taught to their senior secondary students.…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Curriculum Development, Professional Autonomy, History Instruction
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Sopper, John R. – Journal of General Education, 2015
This essay examines the convergence between enduring ideals enshrined in the American tradition of general education that many faculty members endorse and the learning-centered approach to academic advising. In light of this convergence, and in response to the notion of "advising as teaching" advocated in the literature on academic…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Faculty Advisers, General Education, Teacher Role
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Woyshner, Christine – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2016
"May you live in interesting times," goes the saying, attributed to the Chinese, although the provenance is unproven. It is widely understood to be a curse, for which a loose translation could be: "May you experience disorder and trouble in your life." In this essay Christine Woyshner raises the issue of the "interesting…
Descriptors: Fear, Teaching Methods, Peace, Social Change
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