In Europe, with the dissemination of curriculum autonomy policies, teachers tend to be more involved in curriculum reforms as curriculum designers. In Portugal, in 2016, the government unprecedently commissioned eighteen teachers' associations to define a curriculum benchmark -- 'Essential Learning'. Studies have shown the difficulties felt by…

Over 60 years of technology development, transformation of educational policy and curriculum innovation in Ireland have resulted in the introduction of the Computer Science (CS) subject in Post-Primary (PP) Education. CS has always been conceived digitally and the Digital Learning Experiences (DLE) enacted through its curriculum are strongly…

In this paper, we draw upon Jensen's ([1997]. A case of two paradigms within health education. "Health Education Research," 12(4), 419-428; [2000]. Health knowledge and health education in the democratic health promoting school. "Health Education," 100(4), 146-153) Danish work describing two paradigms of school-based health…

All in-class teaching in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies was suspended on Friday, 13 March 2020, because of the COVID-19 global health crisis. These restrictions remained for the commencement of the new academic year 2020-2021, which began in September 2020, thus jeopardizing the delivery of course content at the University of the…

Restorative justice is an approach that centers the voices of those most impacted by harm through facilitated dialogue, perspective-taking, and storytelling. Restorative justice and social work have mutually beneficial and overlapping values and interests. The aim of this integrative review was to determine how and in what settings these two areas…

In recent years, the 'deliberative turn' of political theory has travelled to the classroom. The predominant approach focuses on the 'educative' aspect of deliberation by simulating a fictional public debate in which students discuss controversial political questions given by adults. However, such practice tends to pay scant attention to the…

In the last 15 years, mindfulness programs have become more popular in schools. However, bringing mindfulness into schools involves more than selecting a curriculum. It entails creating the conditions for mindfulness that requires a particular kind of leadership: the capacity to lead for and with mindfulness. Authors Deborah L. Schussler, Karen…

Ancient Indian education was value-based consisting of Gurukul system and world-famous "Nalanda and Takshashila Universities." The value-based education policy reforms were the basis for utilizing the knowledge for benefits of mankind. In ancient Bharat, there were knowledgeable personalities like Sushrut, Aryabhatta, Panini, and…

This book explores the contribution to education contained in the theoretical work and teaching practice of Matthew Lipman (1923-2010) and Ann Margaret Sharp (1942-2010). Their long-lasting cooperation gave rise to the well-known "Philosophy for Children" (P4C) curriculum, which is nowadays globally widespread. P4C basically relies on…

This study aimed to produce and to evaluate a curriculum for environmental education to support sustainable development programmes at an environmentally friendly Islamic boarding school (eco-pesantren). It is a development study with a model of area-based curriculum. The development stage includes analysis, design, develop, implementation, and…

The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has designed a range of policies, initiatives, and projects that aim to improve and revive the Arabic language on political, cultural, and educational levels. During the past decade, these initiatives emerged as a response to a perceived decline in the use of the Arabic language and challenges faced…

In 2022, this journal published our paper titled "Where Visions Meet: Ellen Swallow Richards and Maria Montessori" (McGregor & Ryan-Longo, 2022). As a follow up, we want to share further thoughts on the notion of collaboration between the family and consumer sciences (FCS) profession (also home economics, human ecology, family…

Although the curriculum ideally serves the interests of its recipients, student perspectives have been marginalised in curriculum negotiation. Our objective is to better meet the needs and wishes of vocational education students by including them in planning, acting/observing and reflecting on the citizenship education curriculum. In this…

In this study, technology-enhanced statistical problem-solving tasks designed by pre-service teachers (PTs) were examined. The PTs designed 28 tasks. The designed tasks were analyzed within the context of the Considerations for Design and Implementation of Statistics Tasks (C-DIST) components. It was revealed that the tasks were mostly designed…

Collocational competence is gaining more attention in the field of second language acquisition as it indicates a higher level of target language proficiency. However, Thai university students have been reported as obtaining a low degree of collocational competence which affects productive second language writing (Boonyarattanasoonthorn et al.,…