In this paper, we connect with Martin Thrupp's calls for class-based analysis in education policy by problematising the absence of social class in the refreshed New Zealand curriculum, "Te Mataiaho" (2023). To contextualise this absence, we locate this curriculum policy in a historical perspective and interpret its 'identity turn' as an…

The project 'Digital Citizenship in General Education Schools in Georgia: Challenges and Ways of Implementation' aimed to understand to what extent were teachers, students and parents aware of the Digital Citizenship Education (DCE) concept, whether teachers felt competent to implement it in the classroom and what DCE activities were carried out…

This article explains how education in Scotland is different from that in other parts of the United Kingdom, noting the importance of both traditional values and the current political context. Concerns about standards are discussed in relation to three main issues: the Scottish curriculum; the comprehensive principle; and attempts at structural…

Sustaining change beyond individual teachers is challenging and understanding factors making educational change effective is needed. We aimed to identify the factors that educators and construction specialists considered influential to educational change of a general upper-secondary school that was under construction and was to meet the…

Achieving gender equity in education is essential for national development, yet history education often reinforces gender bias. This study examines gender mainstreaming in the curriculum of Indonesian history, comparing the 2013 Curriculum and the Merdeka Curriculum through Nancy Fraser's social justice framework on redistribution, recognition,…

The International Baccalaureate (IB) has attracted criticism for its Eurocentricity and Western-centricity (Bunnell et al., 2017; Walker, 2010). This article explores international mindedness, questioning whether the IB perpetuates culturally hegemonic, colonial, and Westernised ideas. The paper draws on research data collected in two…

Project-based learning (PjBL) represents a fundamental instructional reform in the new Chinese national curriculum. This study uses a new type of noticing, termed "curricular noticing," to address the questions: How teachers attend to, interpret, and respond to textbooks through the PjBL lesson study? What shared patterns emerge in…

Health education (HE) curricula across Canada are developed by individual provinces/territories, enabling curriculum documents to be responsive to regional needs. However, this autonomy prevents Canadian teachers (and students) from having access to a consistent collection of curriculum competencies/outcomes. Without national HE curriculum…

Curriculum, as a policy and way of moving through educational experience, is entwined with an ongoing history of invasion in Australia and similar invader-colonial contexts. As a result of this, the conceptual foundations of curriculum in Australia reproduce colonial epistemologies as normative modes of knowing and consideration. One way of seeing…

The issue of climate change is addressed within Mexico's Common National Curriculum, which serves as the foundation for developing educational materials like didactic guides and videos aimed at higher middle schools located in regions highly susceptible to its effects. However, while the curriculum incorporates climate change, it lacks specific…

This qualitative study examined how a selected sample of 15 to 16 year-old Norwegian pupils experience Bildung (all-around development) and education in their schooling, and how those experiences are in coherence with the intended curriculum policy goals as stated in the latest Norwegian curriculum reform. Wolfgang Klafki's operationalisation of…

This study developed a mosque-based education integration model curriculum in the face of modernization. This development research adopted the ADDIE development model or analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. This research was conducted in a limited way at the Syuhada Mosque Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The informants…

This article addresses the issue of ethnoknowledge, focusing precisely on ethnoeomorphology in geographic science studies. Reserved a bibliographic review on the subject and methodologically leads us to analyze the national curriculum parameters of Brazilian education around the subject. We consider the existence of popular and cultural knowledge…

National curriculum reform is a complex negotiation point of how basic education should be practiced and what role it should take in society. The question of participation in this process is central to creating a coherent, responsible, and implementable curriculum--but still left for little investigation in the national level reforms. Our goal was…

In this chapter, we explore ways in which Singapore's national curriculum had developed and responded--and continues to develop and respond--to the larger national and societal challenges and contextual needs from colonial times to 2020. We define "curriculum" as the educative decisions of schooling in all of its forms, including the…