Curriculum Theory - Science topic

To create business value from data, firms need a data literate workforce capable of reading, working, analyzing, and arguing with data. Prior studies on data literacy have mostly focused on educational settings and identified data-related skills. However, the suggested generic skill catalogs do not account for the highly situated nature of data pra...

This edited volume provides an international overview of research on nationalism in education. In light of emerging neo-nationalism and national answers to global challenges, the book contributes to a growing and desperately needed discussion on how we can understand and deal with the involvement of education in phenomena of nations and nationalism...

This primer is about learning how to teach. As its name suggests, it provides a basic introduction to what is involved in becoming an effective, efficient, and efficacious educator. The targeted audiences are (a) preservice teachers (PST) (i.e., nonprofessional student teachers enrolled in a university Bachelor of Education degree), (b) early-caree...

Critical thinking (CT) is frequently mentioned as a key competence in sustainability curricula. In this context our era is often diagnosed as being 'post-truth' , indicating an epistemic concern. However, emerging 'post-sustainable' views in education indicate that environmental crises are posing increasingly existential concerns, which might partl...

Education in segregated settings for pupils with intellectual disability (ID) has often been portrayed as a unified form of schooling. There is a risk of providing a simplified picture of these settings and of what pupils with ID need to learn. This is generally stipulated in policy documents, leaving room for staff in school to interpret curricula...

Integrating local knowledge into English learning material is crucial in this globalized era as it has multiple functions, such as building students’ identity, motivating them to learn, making them attached to their culture, and preserving their local knowledge. Anchored by the curriculum theory, this study systemically developed an Acehnese Islami...

The use of generative AI in schools is explored from a curriculum theory lens using Madeline Grumet’s (2008) three strands of curriculum inquiry, along with connections to the work of Elliot Eisner and Ted Aoki. The paper closes with the perspective of the researcher and an exploration of where further study is needed in each of Grumet’s three stra...

"Fundamentals of Curricular Theory" is a book aimed at students of the professional career of Education. The text brings together materials from different authors and philosophical and methodological perspectives, as well as from various social situations. The objective is to provide a varied and stimulating selection that encourages discussion, re...

This paper raises a critical argument on the normativity of data-driven curriculum policy-making in shaping and reshaping education at all levels along an evaluative rationale. The critique evolves in two steps, the first step is deconstructive in character and draws on the work of Porter (Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and...

After the state-based curriculum-development process has finished, the local curriculum-making of the teachers begins. This paper empirically explores the subject curriculum from the perspectives of teachers, focusing on the Norwegian language and literature subject (L1). Using group interviews and drawing on curriculum theory and L1 research and d...

In the heat of the decolonisation struggles of the 2000s, there has been little space or tolerance for conceptual criticism of this important moment in global history. Using the South African case, this article outlines some of the dilemmas of decolonisation as a concept and method for dealing with legacy knowledge in the aftermath of colonialism a...

In this article, I examine the intersections between culture, education, and future through the lens of curriculum studies. Drawing upon key concepts in the field (Wearing et al., 2020), I explore the relationship between culture and curriculum and situate this relationship within the broader context of education. Schwab's four commonplaces of curr...

This paper explores how digital competence and digital technology are addressed in Norwegian early childhood teacher education (ECTE). The aim is to provide a national overview of the ECTE institutions’ programme and relevant course plans to identify how the preservice teachers are being prepared for their future professional life as digitally comp...

The research aimed to study and compare the educational philosophies, frameworks and structures required according to the Chinese curricula for lower secondary education in China and Malaysia. The study had been carried out by using the inferential content analysis approach with Smith's Curriculum Theory as the theoretical framework. The motivation...

This study analyzes the tasks selected and implemented by pre-service mathematics teachers to support students' development of epistemic actions. Data was collected from 20 students who participated in a mathematics education curriculum theory course during one semester, and multiple data sources were used to gather information about the microteach...

The purpose of this article is to study teacher education in Japan and to discuss similarities and differences with similar education in Norway. Confucian principles and curriculum theory was used as a frame of reference. The methodology inspired by Grounded Theory (GT). Categories from a similar study of teacher education in Norway was utilized. M...

In this special issue, the research interest is focused on classroom activities. To adequately understand and examine the classroom situation, the wholeness and complexity of the teaching situation should be maintained and paid attention as much as possible throughout the research process. In dialogues and comparisons between the German concept of...

Background Data literacy is increasingly important in today’s data-driven world. Students across many educational systems first formally learn about data in elementary school not as a separate subject but via the mathematics curriculum. This experience can create tensions in the priorities of learning and assessment given the presence of other foun...

This is the accepted version of the paper now (1.2.23). online at https://academic.oup.com/jope?login=false Although Paul Hirst was no longer working in the educational field between 2010 and 2020, echoes of his ideas resonate through the decade. I look at three examples. [1] The National Curriculum. In the 1990s Hirst had been critical of the ne...

The following contribution is divided into two parts, for reasons of space. The current article will deal with issues of translation and translatability from German into English in the field of Didaktik (didactics, subject didactics and general subject didactics). The starting point will be to gather information about the spread and acceptance of t...

Didaktik geleneği, Kıta Avrupası’nda (özellikle Almanya ve Kuzey Avrupa) etkili bir eğitim (okullaşma) yaklaşımıdır. Bu gelenek; okullaşmada yaygın Anglo-Amerikan geleneği olan Eğitim Programından (Curriculum) farklılıklar göstermektedir. İki gelenek arasında 1990’lı yılların sonlarında bir diyalog ve etkileşim süreci başlamış, böylece program kura...

Resumo: Este trabalho, situado na área da Linguística Aplicada (LA), integra umpesquisa que analisou os Projetos Pedagógicos dos Cursos (PPC) presenciais em Letras Português-Espanhol e Letras Espanhol, da Universidade Federal de Sergipe. A análise está baseada na confluência de pressupostos contemporâneos da LA, tais como: os estudos decoloniais; o...

Youth and Adult Education (YAE) is a modality of basic education that serves a public with different gaps in access and permanence in school. In this sense, this work aimed to analyze the explicit and implicit Curriculum Theories on the Biology component in YAE. For that, 32 articles from the last 15 years were analyzed. Theoretically grounded, the...

This paper contributes to curriculum theory from the perspective of a fundamental critique of education. Its objective is two-fold: to analyze both traditional and critical approaches to the curriculum and the types of education that flow from them and to propose changes that could result in significant improvements to the curricula through the rad...

This chapter addresses two core questions in the field of curriculum research and theorizing. The first concerns how to understand issues of governance of the school as a societal institution, and the second draws attention to how we can understand the organization of knowledge in school. Drawing upon relevant research and theories from within and...

This research aimed to understand the curriculum quality management more deeply, to understand the scope of learning Arabic, and to know the process of curriculum quality management and Arabic learning. The researcher used a descriptive approach by suggesting several definitions of curriculum quality management and its application in learning Arabi...

In 1999, Bruce Uhrmacher developed an analytical framework to promote the study of monuments. The framework introduced three points of analysis: 1) an analysis of referent, 2) an analysis of design, and 3) an analysis of reception. This framework focused on developing a curriculum that supported a critical, interdisciplinary study of monuments. In...

PKBM is currently being developed by various parties, both by the community, social and religious institutions (organizations), or formed by the government, especially the District/City Education Office, District through Community Education Inspectors, even at the Village/Kelurahan level. However, the problems that surround it continue to occur, th...

This article exfoliates Antonia Darder’s critical excavations on cultural democracy and schooling. The article unfolds her arguments in the context of our contemporary epoch, an epoch paced by an absurd. In doing so, the paper scrutinizes eugenics and the curriculum epistemicide as the real colors of such absurdity in our field. The paper situates...

Transnational policy discourses shape teacher professionalism through discursive patterns in policy initiatives from the global policy actor, OECD. The policy idea of ‘the teacher assistant’ has emerged through discourses on teacher professionalism, spurring ambiguities regarding what the policy idea is and ought to be in Sweden. The aim of this ar...

A brief introduction to the origins of the STEM movement is given. Subsequently, the problems arising from both the lack of its precise conceptualisation and the attempts to its implementation in educational settings are analysed, pointing out the criticisms its integrated approach has received from three related fields: specific didactics, cogniti...

Higher order thinking skills (HOTS) are already a trend in educational sector. The concepts of HOTS are applied in statements of ‘basic competences’ (as known as KD) in the 2013 English Curriculum (syllabus). The purpose of stating HOTS concepts in ‘KD’ to make all of the process of teaching and learning resulted on the students’ ability to be able...

This study was motivated by the fact that teachers had many difficulties adopting the 2013 curriculum, particularly the new 2013 curriculum set at a private Madrasah Ibtidaiyyah. The goal of this study was to determine teachers' grasp of the 2013 Curriculum in terms of planning, implementation, and assessment of the learning process. The study's su...

The paper presents a review process of Didaktik and curriculum theories, one that suggests that a German Bildung Didaktik approach seems to be suitable ground for the development of a critical-democratic Didaktik in preschool. The paper examines fundamental dimensions in Bildung Didaktik as point of departure for the modelling of a Didaktik in pres...

The paper deals with historical traditions of curriculum based on institutionalization of elementary education during the long 19th century and its impact on current curricular theory and practice. The research will specifically focus on the historical Czech lands as a part of the Habsburg Monarchy and the successor current Czech Republic as one of...

Mulla Sadra's philosophy has an ontological approach. However, his explicit texts or philosophical foundations in social issues such as education and especially the curriculum and its relationship with learning methods can be extracted. Mulla Sadra's different approach to learning has distinguished his educational system from other educational stru...

Managing children’s emotions through tutorial action: primary level children’s emotions in the classroom with the goal that they become conscious of their emotions and can control them. They will consider further before acting on impulse and give thought to the consequences of their actions, as much for themselves as for their peers and adults. In...

Background The World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledges the importance of preschool children taking part in comprehensive physical activities supporting, among other things, their motor development, and competencies. A growing number of children attend early childhood education and care (ECEC), and expectations that this will support the develo...

Few matters are of greater importance to high quality early childhood education than the content and mediation of curriculum. In spite of this, early childhood curriculum practices are rarely examined through the lens of curriculum theory. This research employs educational connoisseurship and criticism as a methodology to shed light upon the curric...

Background Caring for older adults is among the most challenging issue of public health and social care systems in modern societies. By enhancing the nursing curriculum, nursing students will be qualified to provide gerontology care, and they will be acknowledging and working to eliminate ageism from the health care system. Purpose This study expl...

In the context of rapid social development, education has also faced many challenges in the market. As an important part of higher education, music courses have important value and effect on the cultivation of students’ healthy psychological quality. Correct and effective music teaching can effectively guide students’ music theory knowledge and aes...

In Germany, dual learning programmes are increasingly offered by higher education institutions. These programmes' main characteristic and greatest challenge is their integration of academic and vocational learning. So far, this challenge has frequently been stated without specifying its exact nature and consequences for learners. The present study...

Purpose: This study focused on the challenges facing effective teaching, learning and assessment in community-based secondary schools in the Tabora region. Methodology: This study employed a mixed method approach in line with a sequential explanatory research design. The study employed simple random sampling procedures to enlisted 219 people from v...

The study aimed at identifying the teacher practices that support the implementation of the new business subjects' curriculum in selected secondary schools of Kabale district, Uganda. The study was underpinned by Ralph W. Tyler's (1949) principles of curriculum theory. Based on the pragmatist perspective, a concurrent triangulation research design...

In the past decades, neoliberalism has permeated (foreign) language education, as has been discussed by critical research in the fields of: curriculum theory, applied linguistics, discourse analysis, language policy, language assessment, to name a few. Despite the fact that research on foreign language education and neoliberalism is certainly growi...

Taking as a starting point the context of educational inequalities which has long characterized the Brazilian case, the present article aims to investigate some of the different conceptions regarding school knowledge and its distribution, which foresee different justifications and solutions for this scenario. In this process, we highlight the role...

This study aims to foment reflections on School Education and the historical perspective of curriculum theories, within the institutions, having the Common National Curriculum Base (BNCC) as one of the references, while asking how Inclusive Education is placed in this construction that is thought of as an education for all. This is a documentary an...

This dissertation aims to provide a genealogy of the relations between the public and the private in education. It does so by the exploring how public education and private tutoring form and transform each other and why they are seen as legitimate or problematic in different historical and cultural contexts. Drawing on curriculum theory and Foucaul...

The article focuses the debate on knowledge in the curriculum field, arguing that the conflict over this name marks the dynamism of a given curricular thought response that seeks to control what is read as lacking in itself, the otherness. Initially, with the contribution of the studies by Derrida and Laclau, it interprets policy as constituted thr...

The article focuses the debate on knowledge in the curriculum field, arguing that the conflict over this name marks the dynamism of a given curricular thought response that seeks to control what is read as lacking in itself, the otherness. Initially, with the contribution of the studies by Derrida and Laclau, it interprets policy as constituted thr...

This study responds to the demands of the rapidly changing landscape of education, the 21st century competencies and development of curriculum. Those competences are being interpreted all over the world resulting to differing curricular changes. In the Finnish National Core Curriculum 2016 they are presented as seven transversal competences that gu...

With the development of science and technology, big data and wireless communication technology are gradually applied in the field of education. As people nowadays have higher and higher requirements for the orientation and characteristics of kindergarten curriculum, kindergarten curriculum presents a development trend of “a hundred flowers bloom.”...

This paper traces the sociological roots of the ‘knowledge turn’ and a concept centrally identified with it, ‘powerful knowledge’, beginning with the work of Basil Bernstein which was subsequently elaborated in a wide range of contexts-of-use in the broad field of curriculum studies. The paper distinguishes different reasons educators have for enga...

The paper deals with theoretical and methodological aspects of examining the position of religion within the university context. The first section offers an overview of assumptions within three recent pieces of research on this topic. In its second section, the paper examines the possibility of applying the curriculum theory to investigating the po...

This report reflects on the journey of the implementation of the Happiness Curriculum in Delhi government schools. It discusses what the Happiness Curriculum entails, its theoretical underpinnings, how is it implemented in schools, and presents happy voices of students and teachers

Drawing on Pepetela’s novel The Generation of Utopia, the article situates and dissects the role of a group of intellectuals within a radical critical curriculum river, working towards a more just society and education, and enhancing a utopian generation. The article emphasizes the erroneous persistence of intellectuals associated with such generat...

Globally climate change (CC) is scarcely addressed in school curricula, and school graduates are mostly uneducated about climate change. The purpose of this paper is to make a case for conceptualising CC as a discipline, and to further argue why CC should be included in school curricula as a disciplinary-subject. An initial examination of CC in cur...

We were urged to this discussion by the “persecution” suffered by the school during the COVID-19 pandemic, a persecution to which it is our ethical-political duty to respond. This is an essay that intends to problematize the serving of the school - which seems to confer its meanings - to defend that such meanings only appear in the relationship wit...

New York: Routledge, 2020. 338 pp. Every academic discipline and scholarly field of study has its limits and its untapped potential and possibilities. It is a valuable exercise to critique such a discipline or field at a given moment in historical time, to reassess its strengths, to reveal flaws and to propose new lines of flight and points of depa...

We were urged to this discussion by the “persecution” suffered by the school during the COVID-19 pandemic, a persecution to which it is our ethical-political duty to respond. This is an essay that intends to problematize the serving of the school - which seems to confer its meanings - to defend that such meanings only appear in the relationship wit...

The aim of this paper is on the corpus of curricula of compulsory methodological courses at ten studies of Croatistics held at six universities in the Republic of Croatia to reveal the level of their compliance with the newly emerging educational policy within the Curriculum Reform and curriculum theory, which has officially, i.e., legally replaced...

A Learning Development Of Beauty Skill Program At A Vocational School In Preserving Local Wisdom. Objectives: The research is to analyze the learning development of beauty skill program at a vocational school in preserving local wisdom. Methods: to employ a qualitative approach with an analytically descriptive method towards two-state vocational sc...

There is a decline in character values as indicated by an increase of moral decadence indicators, such as dropouts due to promiscuity, gambling, drug abuse among students, brawls between students, and gangs that unsettle the public, and other social issues that involve students. These issues are a barometer that character education has not optimall...

The aim of this literature review study was to examine the historical development of the concept of curriculum theory, its reflections on curriculum development studies, and teaching-learning processes and also to attract the attention of the researchers to the area of curriculum theory which was seen to be left aside for years. The research was de...

This chapter presents views, opinions, and perceptions about the curriculum theories that propagate educational perspectives of social injustice, cultural exclusion, supremacy, socio-economic inequality, and inequity. The data collection method was question and answer and deductive reasoning conducted in small groups in education studies classes. P...

This thesis deals with the topic of cross-curricular relationships between the subjects German and geography. In the theoretical part, I define the concept of intersubject relations in terms of some concepts of curriculum theory with reference to the Czech system of framework educational programmes. Furthermore, I examine the phenomenon of realia a...

In this paper, a 9-layer convolutional neural network with 4 convolutional layers, 4 pooling layers, and 1 fully connected layer is designed to recognize the emotions of digital learning images in the era of big data. The convolutional neural network is trained using digital learning images that have been labeled with emotions, and the final test s...

The purpose of this study was to examine the values of movement and physical activity (MoPA) using government policy documents (e.g., laws and curricula) on early childhood education and care (ECEC) from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. This descriptive, comparative study was designed based on curriculum theory and used word count and...

The main purpose of the current study was to assess the effect of teachers’ characteristics in the implementation of the new Business Subjects’ curriculum in selected secondary schools of Kabale District, Uganda. The study was based on the doctrines of the curriculum theory developed by Ralph W. Tyler. The mixed methods research, enclosed within a...

Alex Moore’s (2015) Understanding the School Curriculum: Theory, Politics and Principles explores how the school curriculum works through its becoming as it navigates reproductive paranoia and (r)evolutionary schizophrenia. Moore suggests that the school curriculum inevitably intersects with political and socio-economic interests as well as the glo...

Objetivo: El artículo tiene como fin proponer un método de evaluación curricular basado en la autogestión y la transformación con énfasis en el control como vía para el perfeccionamiento de la formación profesional. Métodos: Las autoras emplearon métodos del nivel teórico como el análisis y la síntesis, el método sistémico estructural funcional, y...

This article corroborates the inclusive nature of photographic narrative in teaching situations mediated by digital hybrids. It represents an attempt to address growing concern about use of technological media in teaching that does not facilitate the learning process or leverage these tools by proposing actions that promote higher mental processes...

This study investigated the effect of Blended Smartphone Think-pair-share teaching strategy onYear2 Students’ Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement in Ed221( Curriculum Theory). The study adopted a quasi-experimental design. Specifically a pretest posttest non-equivalent control group design. Two research questions were posed and one hypo...

Teaching English in Early Childhood Education is a reality in Brazil, despite its lack of requirement according to current legislations. There is a demand for professionals to teach, but English majors usually do not embrace this age group which would be the focus of Pedagogy. Therefore, a study was developed to comprehend how universities are prep...

Introduction It is said that the child of today is the builder of tomorrow. It can be possible only through the well designed and effective implementation of curriculum by proper and organized way that the child could be realized his inner potential and contribute meaningfully to national development. The curriculum is the primary means of educatio...

Critical Transformative Educational Leadership and Policy Studies is a comprehensive collection of critical contributions from most of the leading voices in the fields of educational leadership and educational policy studies, pushing back against the current neoliberal authoritarian environment. The volume offers alternative ways to perceive and to...

This paper analyses the cognitive characteristics and cognitive laws of freshmen students in learning the C programming language. We have built a spirally ascending complete curriculum theory knowledge system and a practical teaching model of experience–verification–exploration. The knowledge system is established through programming thinking from...

The syllabus of English in the Swedish National Curriculum is based on a communicative approach, but lacks explicit guidelines on what to teach. Furthermore, the Education Act demands equal outcomes from schools that also should ensure every child's equal learning opportunities. With reference to vocabulary knowledge as crucial for language profici...

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 scale...

Curriculum studies have undergone extensive changes in curriculum theory; especially in reconceptualisation era, which is undoubtedly one of the most important and prominent periods. At the same time, this period could be practically considered as a reaction to the classical conception of the field, which has been accompanied by a backward command...

This article is a discussion of the intersection between curriculum theory and agential realism as it emerged in the development of a curriculum theory course. During the process of designing such a course, I found myself wrestling with the different theoretical understandings of curriculum. What I came to realize was that while all of the theories...

Complex sustainability challenges may never be fully solved, rather requiring continuous, adaptive, and reflexive responses over time. Engagement of this nature departs from well-structured problems that entail expected solutions; here, focus shifts toward ill-structured or ill-defined issues characterized by wickedness. In the context of complex c...

The entry attempts to analyze the complexity of curriculum and to reflect on what this means for curriculum theory in four steps. First, the history of the development of curriculum studies as an educational sub-discipline is reconstructed in its specific cultural milieu characterized by particular ideological preferences which became heavily conte...

Background: within the scope of public educational policies, the research focuses on the recontextualisation of the principle of interdisciplinarity of the Programa Mais Educação São Paulo (More Education Programme) for mathematics teachers' pedagogical practices. Objective: to discuss the meanings attributed to interdisciplinarity by mathematics t...

This study aims to discuss the concept of curriculum in an Islamic perspective originating from the interpretation of the verses of the Qur'an and Al-Hadith (Qurdis), their relevance/comparison with curriculum theory in general, and their implications in Islamic education. Using descriptive qualitative methods with literature studies, the researche...

There seems to be sufficient willingness to implement curriculum decolonisation in universities in South Africa since the student-led #FeesMustFall campaigns in 2015 and 2016. However, studies on the challenges and enabling conditions of curriculum decolonisation that academics and academic developers can utilise remain scant. In this chapter, we u...

Resumo Este artigo tem por objetivo refletir sobre a relação entre os saberes docentes e sua transposição didática, através da perspectiva teórica proposta por Tardif e Gauthier (2013), os quais discutem o que é pertinente saber para ser ensinado na atualidade. Nessa relação residem os principais desafios postos à prática docente, considerando a re...

As a result of international neoliberal and neoconservative trends, the status of the arts has been devalued in secondary school curricula. This paper examines why the arts are not considered core educational knowledge in pedagogic discourse arising from the New Right policy agenda. In a case study analysis of Swedish educational policy debates, cu...

Since 2016 the law on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) has been in force in Austria. In the meantime, as regulated by the law, qualifications have been assigned in various forms in individual procedures (with exception for the Bologna-compliant university certificates, who were once again able to achieve a special path for themselves). T...

This article investigates in what way the Swedish compulsory school curriculum (Lgr11) addresses knowledge regarding Swedish national minorities. The aim is to study alignment within Lgr11 through a case of the theme national minorities. Research questions target alignment within syllabi and alignment between syllabi and the aim and guidelines in t...

Questioning what knowledge is of most worth in the early weeks of North America's Covid-19 crisis, this article begins to reimagine the possibilities of curriculum in such unprecedented times. It reflects on the author’s experiences as a doctoral student to unveil the capacity of a curriculum that emphasizes compassion, community, and relational ac...

Background: There is a growing view that ‘Big Ideas of science education’ are useful for teaching science but there is not much knowledge of how teachers work with them. Purpose: This study explores the conceptualisation and practice of the use of Big Ideas of science education by primary and secondary teachers in Chile. Sample: A total of 63 sci...

This paper introduces a special issue which aims to address the challenges facing the 'deliberative' educational knowledge traditions of educational foundations, curriculum theory and Didaktik as a consequence of the rising tide of empiricism in educational research, the 'what works' agenda in global educational reform and internal fragmentation wi...

This paper introduces a special issue which aims to address the challenges facing the ‘deliberative’ educational knowledge traditions of educational foundations, curriculum theory and Didaktik as a consequence of the rising tide of empiricism in educational research, the ‘what works’ agenda in global educational reform and internal fragmentation wi...

The research responds to the objective: To develop an improvement program to strengthen the competences related to the development of critical thinking, formative evaluation, management of pedagogical and curricular theories and student learning in the teacher training program of Mathematics-Physics, 2020. 6 teachers were considered for the researc...