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Sondre Saether; Jorunn Spord Borgen; Petter Erik Leirhaug – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
Play, games and sport are a part of the content of physical education (PE), and has been the subject of a longstanding debate among educators internationally and in Scandinavian countries. Play refers to something unstructured and free, while sport is a controlled and managed activity. Drawing on Skovbjerg`s (2021) play theory, this article…
Descriptors: Play, Physical Education, Athletics, Games
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Apisak Sukying; Jessie S. Barrot – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
There is an ongoing concern regarding the alignment of textbooks with curriculum standards across different subjects. Such studies have emphasized the critical, yet complex, role of textbooks in bridging pedagogical practices with curricular reforms. The present research builds upon these discussions, by examining not only the alignment but also…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, National Curriculum
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Breeze, Thomas; Beauchamp, Gary; Bolton, Nicola; McInch, Alex – Music Education Research, 2023
Current international trends in curriculum design tend to advocate an approach which defines broad 'competences' rather than disciplinary content or skills, encouraging the making of connections between subject disciplines. This article discusses the results of a survey of 75 secondary music teachers in Wales, a nation which is in the early stages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Music Teachers, Music Education
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Olivey, Jacob – Teaching History, 2022
Jacob Olivey set out to design enquiries which would enable his pupils to reconstruct, using evidence, the perspectives of people in the past. In this article he shares in detail the planning and outcomes of two enquiries: one for Year 7 and one for Year 8. Olivey offers a example of 'the curriculum as the progression model', considering how to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design, Thinking Skills, Evidence
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Koglbauer, René – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Ofsted's (2021) Curriculum research review for languages (OCRR) draws conclusion on what 'high-quality language education' may look like. This opinion piece problematises the status of these conclusions as 'features' or recommendations. Before delving into a selection of identified 'features' in more depth, the author highlights the complexity of…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Faculty Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hung, Cheng-Yu – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
The new Taiwanese citizenship curriculum has converted its traditional bullet-point guidelines to hundreds of open-ended questions. Each question acts to initiate collective inquiry, to stimulate the sharing of lived experiences and to trigger within-class conversations. The previous pre-determined educational objectives and learning outcomes, in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries
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Foster, Colin; Francome, Tom; Hewitt, Dave; Shore, Chris – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
The curriculum resources used for teaching secondary mathematics vary considerably from school to school. Some schools base their teaching largely on a single published scheme, while others design their own schemes of learning, curating their resources from a range of (often free) online sources. Both approaches seem problematic from the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Secondary School Students, Teaching Skills
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Testa, Italo; Psillos, Dimitris; Molohidis, Anastasios – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
This empirical study investigates the main features of curricula and contexts that favor or hinder the process of transfer of a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) from the designers' original situation to a host one. The specific research questions addressed were (RQ1) what were the changes made during the process of transfer in the new context?…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, National Curriculum, Science Curriculum
Education Scotland, 2022
It's been 20 years since the last 'National Debate' on education led to the launch of Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence with the four capacities in 2004. The curriculum was conceived to 'fully prepare today's children for adult life in the 21st century' (Scottish Executive, 2004, p. 3). These four capacities articulated the aspirational purpose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Educational History, Excellence in Education
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Deng, Li; Zhengmei, Peng – Comparative Education, 2021
China and the US have responded to the challenges of a knowledge-based society, technological advancement, and global competition by implementing educational reforms to impart skills or competencies required of 21st century students. This study compares the rationales, content, and curricula design of both countries' key competencies frameworks…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Influences, Confucianism, Foreign Countries
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McKnight, Lucinda – Gender and Education, 2018
This article looks to three inspirational Black women, bell hooks, Stacey McBride-Irby and Patricia Williams, in the pursuit of radical curriculum. While today curriculum is critiqued as racialised, gendered, sexualised and classed, the formats of curriculum documents such as text books, units of work and lesson plans have changed little. These…
Descriptors: African Americans, Gender Differences, Lesson Plans, Curriculum Design
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Larke, Laura R. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The addition of computing to England's National Curriculum was welcomed as a much-needed modernization of the country's digital skills curriculum, replacing a poorly regarded ICT program of study with an industry-supported scheme of computer science, robotics and computational thinking. This paper will demonstrate how teachers have acted as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Elementary School Students, Technological Literacy
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Papaevripidou, Marios; Irakleous, Maria; Zacharia, Zacharias C. – Science Education International, 2017
The study aimed at examining preservice elementary teachers' inquiry-oriented curriculum materials in an attempt to unravel their pedagogical design capacity (PDC) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for inquiry-based learning (IBL), after attending a professional development program (PDP) centered around inquiry-based teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Trinick, Robyn; Joseph, Dawn – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2017
Initial teacher educators seek to manage curriculum coverage within the time constraints of initial teacher education (ITE) courses. As a result, considered choices need to be made regarding content and pedagogical approaches based on what ITE educators deem to be valuable, memorable and transferrable. Using narrative methodology, two tertiary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Educators
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Johnson, Philip – School Science Review, 2014
Drawing on research into students' understanding, this article argues that the customary approach to introductory chemistry has created difficulties for students. Instead of being based on the notion of "solids, liquids and gases", introductory chemistry should be structured to develop the concept of a substance. The concept of a…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Introductory Courses, Evidence, Teaching Methods
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