Curriculum Theory - Science topic

With the increasing impact of digital technology on education, the digital transformation of education has become one of the most important changes in the field of education. Curriculum digital transformation is an important engine to lead and promote the digital transformation of education. At present, there are few theoretical and practical studi...

The Norwegian education system ranges from kindergarten to university and has a social mission in facilitating education, development, and learning. Several policy documents set requirements and expectations for content and goals at various levels of the system. The content and work methods of education have throughout history been influenced by te...

This paper reports a longitudinal study, organized around national surveys and institution-based case studies, of 'enrichment' in post-16 colleges across England and Wales. These institutions transect general and vocational education pathways, whose curricula are organized respectively around subject disciplines and employment skills. Drawing on so...

Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate, analyze and discuss the aspects, paths and perspectives that permeate teacher training in Higher Education at a private university in São Paulo. Theoretical Framework: This research is based on theories and discussions in the areas of the history and philosophy of education, teaching and lea...

Intercultural understanding in teaching and learning English-an opportunity for Swedish compulsory education. (Interkulturell förståelse i engelskundervisning. En möjlighet) The thesis examines the prospects of developing intercultural understanding through English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Swedish comprehensive school. Summary in English...

Dwayne Huebner is a leading contemporary theorist in the field of curriculum studies in general and spiritual curriculum in particular, known for shaking up the foundations of the field of curriculum. A thinker that scholars like Pinar consider him to be the most important mind in this field and are disappointed in his understanding without the gro...

The significance of curriculum in education cannot be underestimated, as it enables teachers to know what to teach during teaching and learning. The dominant curriculum used in schools today is a scripted curriculum that does not allow teachers to see learners as co-creators in constructing knowledge. Many teachers find it challenging to adjust thi...

There is a significant misalignment between the curricula of Pakistani universities and the demands of the local job market. This issue seems particularly obvious for English undergraduate students who, despite having completed a 4-year BS program, struggle to either pass competitive exams for earning jobs or qualify M.Phil. and Ph.D. entrance exam...

The study starts from the global goals of inequality reduction and legal frameworks towards people with disabilities to evaluate curricular components and institutional guidance of active undergraduate courses in Library Science in the southeast area of Brazil. This study, which is of an applied nature, aims to investigate if and how universities o...

Abstract The study investigated the political influence on the secondary school curriculum in Zambia, examining how successive governments have shaped educational content, structure, and priorities using a lens of the Political Economy of Education, Critical Pedagogy, and Curriculum Theory. The research explored the historical evolution of the curr...

Curriculum studies is at the core of the educational endeavour and informs what happens in every educational institution. As a result of the criticality or primacy of the curriculum, every educational practitioner appears to claim expertise in curriculum matters and what direction the field of curriculum studies should take. These struggles in the...

This study aims to investigate a discussion on the implementation of the independent learning curriculum at madrasah tsanawiyah. This research uses a qualitative descriptive qualitative research method using the independent curriculum theory which is based on constructivism learning theory. According to the principle of independent learning, curric...

Curriculum studies is at the core of the educational endeavour and informs what happens in every educational institution. As a result of the criticality or primacy of the curriculum, every educational practitioner appears to claim expertise in curriculum matters and what direction the field of curriculum studies should take. These struggles in the...

Curriculum studies is at the core of the educational endeavour and informs what happens in every educational institution. As a result of the criticality or primacy of the curriculum, every educational practitioner appears to claim expertise in curriculum matters and what direction the field of curriculum studies should take. These struggles in the...

This article presents the results of an academic research mapping about curriculum and its theoretical conceptualizations, seeking to identify how curriculum integration emerges from these discussions. This descriptive study carried out bibliometric analyses using the Bibliometrix package of the R software, extracted from the Web of Science databas...

Curriculum aesthetics is a branch of educational studies that examines the aesthetic value and quality of curriculum design, teaching methods, and learning experiences. It focuses on creating meaningful and engaging learning experiences through the curriculum and instructional methods, aiming to promote the holistic development of students. This ar...

My PhD (https://freader.ekt.gr/eadd/index.php?doc=49718&lang=el) thesis have examined computer science teachers' attitudes, practices, and beliefs regarding ICT in Greek primary education just before a curriculum transition period and the replacement of the previous program of studies with a "Computer Science" curriculum. The aim of this thesis was...

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce qualitative content analysis as a methodological tool in education research. The chapter will initially briefly describe the basics of the method and then give more concrete descriptions of different approaches within it. The rest of the chapter will be dedicated to three different examples of my own use...

The Council on Higher Education (CHE) and the South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP) play vital roles as accreditation bodies in ensuring the quality of Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) programmes in South Africa. However, the intermittent de-accreditation of BSW programmes poses a significant and recurring challenge for numerou...

This article, situated in the field of didactics of religion, explores the comprehension of religious education (RE) by the editors of Elevkanalen, a subsidiary of TV2, Norway's most significant commercial public broadcaster. They are a unique media enterprise that provides educational resources for primary and lower secondary schools and is design...

This paper focuses on dual-language programs and the transformation of implementation through the lens of Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT), curricularized language, and personal pedagogies, and how it impacts the way educators work within a dual-language program. The pedagogies of educator practices and influences included individuals with differe...

Creating an interprofessional curriculum development working group is one of the most important steps that influences the success of the curriculum. It is vital to ensure that all of the institution’s umbrellaed programs are represented and committed to the process even though, due to logistical reasons, some programs might not be involved in al...

It is critical to understand the curriculum theories after establishing the relationships between paradigm, theory, and model on a solid basis in the context of the curriculum. However, the literature in Türkiye is scarce in this regard and the curriculum theories are not discussed in this context. On the contrary, the curriculum theories of the th...

This paper explores the transfer, translation and recontextualisation of Laurence Stenhouse's work, as encapsulated in the ‘teacher as researcher’ metaphor, to the Greek language and in the fields of research and policy in Greece and Cyprus. We first briefly frame action research work as emerging through and within a specific space‐time (and in con...

In this essay, the importance of epistemological reflection in the educational context is emphasized in light of the 2022 report from the International Commission on the Futures of Education (CIFE) by UNESCO. I argue that teachers play a crucial role in students' skill development, highlighting Trindade & Cosme's (2016) pedagogical paradigms as fun...

In today's rapidly developing economy, the transition from a working society to a leisure society has made the importance of leisure education increasingly prominent. However, due to the narrow educational concept, leisure education has not received the attention it deserves, making it difficult to realize its true educational value. As a life orie...

This book advances new ways of thinking about emergence and impact of Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT).Written by authors based in Algeria, Brazil, Chile, China, Estonia, South Korea, Spain and the USA, the chapters examine the opportunities and challenges paved by ICT in the struggle to open up and decolonize curriculum policies. The contributors...

Educational innovation is inevitable in every society. A shift from 8:4:4 to 2:6:3:3:3 (CBC) system of education is ongoing and the new curriculum is taking a centre stage. Situational analysis is a prerequisite for an effective implementation of a new curriculum. However, gaps have been exhibited that are impediments to its effective implementatio...

This thesis is about the pedagogical considerations and decisions that upper primary school teachers (students age 10-12) engage with as they plan and conduct teaching in science class. It is also about the factors that have an impact on these considerations and decisions. Science education in upper primary school has been neglected in Sweden and i...

The "System of Competency-Based Curriculum Design" (SCCD) framework was developed to meet the requirement for reform in competency-based education and overcome the limitations of Understanding by Design (UbD). This comprehensive framework, incorporating knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values , aligns with competency ingredients as defined by the...

This article reports a theoretical investigation on music curriculum and explores the factors that shape the practice of music education in terms of the official and other music curricula. We drew on relevant literature and explored four key aspects of the design and implementation of music curriculum: policy-making contexts, teaching practices, st...

This article reports a theoretical investigation on music curriculum and explores the factors that shape the practice of music education in terms of the official and other music curricula. We drew on relevant literature and explored four key aspects of the design and implementation of music curriculum: policy-making contexts, teaching practices, st...

The rise of ChatGPT era will bring great changes to human production and life, and also pose a major challenge to the implementation and reform of basic education curriculum. This will lead to an all-round reform of basic education curriculum theory, basic education curriculum system and basic education curriculum practice. This paper comprehensive...

Ghana’s educational reforms are mostly influenced or initiated by politicians. The concept of politics is a means to an end and not an end in itself. This is experienced as a result of the cascading effect of the power of the macro level of curriculum theory to its micro level. These results are a direct reflection of Ghana's political and governme...

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...

Ralph Tyler's Curriculum Theory, 21st-Century Learning Paradigms, Modern Curriculum Integration, Private Higher Education Institute, Karachi This research explores the applicability of Ralph Tyler's Curriculum Theory in contemporary elementary education, focusing on Karachi, Pakistan. It delves into the shift towards 21st-century learning paradigms...

Al leer la educación histórica a través de la teoría del currículo, exploro las lógicas paradigmáticas en competencia que sustentan los programas de historia y las elecciones pedagógicas de los docentes. En comparación con un paradigma de 'gestión estandarizada' y 'mejores prácticas constructivistas', me baso en mi experiencia académica para argume...

This book advances new ways of thinking about emergence and impact of Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT).Written by authors based in Algeria, Brazil, Chile, China, Estonia, South Korea, Spain and the USA, the chapters examine the opportunities and challenges paved by ICT in the struggle to open up and decolonize curriculum policies. The contributors...

Curriculum has emerged over the past century from a simple list of subject-specific outcomes to an intricate and holistic set of experiences for students to grapple with. This comparative literature review discusses the research related to curriculum theory and practice. It draws upon a range of sources, from Mark K Smith’s article on Curriculum Th...

This text is focused on the question of what we should teach in high school philosophy and the relationship of this teaching to recognizing oneself as a good philosophy teacher. We hold that these points are connected to the idea of “canon” and “history of philosophy” that we gained with and despite Ricœur himself. This paper advances a critical vi...

The last decades have seen regular and frequent modifications of the wording of school curricula in the Nordic countries together with increased appeals from teachers for further clarification. The paper analyzes how assessment of the subject English is presented in Sweden and Finland at the lower and upper secondary levels. The aim was to explore...

Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) conferences and students' entrepreneurial intervarsity competitions have brought awareness and insight to students, academics, and other higher learning institution (HEI) stakeholders to the value that entrepreneurship can provide them and their communities. A reflective practice account on en...

'Curriculum theory' and 'Curriculum theorizing' have been widely used interchangeably, yet they vary essentially on different poles. This paper, therefore, begins with an attempt to reveal the minute but academic dichotomy that exists between what one can call 'curriculum theory' and 'curriculum theorizing', while an effort is made to appreciate th...

Feedback plays an important role in the L2 learning process, as evidenced by several meta-analyses on both oral (e.g., Li, 2010) and written (e.g., Kang & Han, 2015) corrective feedback. In the written corrective feedback (WCF) strand, when viewed from a writing-to-learn perspective (Manchón, 2011), there has been a recent two-pronged critique that...

This research examines four aspects of the independent learning curriculum at MAN 2 Kediri City, namely objectives, materials, methods and evaluation. The main focus is to examine the impact on the development of students' independence and their readiness to face future challenges. This qualitative case study involves field observations, interviews...

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...

The research presented in this thesis focuses on engineering students’ generic competence development, particularly in the context of PBL, and how formalized learning outcomes correspond to students' experiences. The thesis discusses approaches like explicit learning outcomes, pedagogical activities promoting reflection, and interventions for the d...

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...

This edited volume provides a compendium of recent work on critical curricular-pedagogical praxes via itinerant curriculum theory (ICT). Overall, this volume advances ICT as a transnational-local way of doing critical curricular-pedagogical praxes, up-from-below, within bioregions. For those interested in doing critical pedagogy from an historicize...

The Culturally Nourishing Schooling (CNS) project is focused on whole‐of‐learning community efforts that aim to improve the educational experiences and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners. The project supports school‐based professional learning strategies, broad school or system‐level initiatives and deep engagement with...

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...

The environmental issues has transcended the confines of national boundaries and become global concerns. To address these matters, Environmental Education (EE) has emerged as a pivotal strategy aimed at elevating students’ awareness, knowledge, and attitude towards the environment. In this light, China has incorporated EE into its official curricul...

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...

Objetivo: El artículo se centra en la descripción y el análisis de las bases curriculares de la educación parvularia en Chile, específicamente en sus fundamentos, organización curricular y objetivos de aprendizaje para el tramo de cero a dos años, así como de las principales orientaciones para el desarrollo curricular. Métodos: La revisión del doc...

"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...

The essay deals with sustainable development in teacher education in Sweden. Using self-study of teacher educator praxis allows inquiry into practical experience informed by propositional knowledge. Using a curriculum theory approach, two dimensions of work on sustainable development at a university are presented, the intended and enacted curriculu...

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...

The curriculum work of teachers is understood and conceptualised in different ways. A prevalent view is that teachers are an integral part of a system of transmission and their work with curriculum essentially a technical exercise. Some form of this view seems to be assumed by policymakers, parents and at least some teachers. However, when this sam...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

This post-qualitative inquiry investigates the challenge of microfascism for curriculum and pedagogy. Contemporary schooling has been rightly implicated in the expression and production of microfascist desires for control, and the situation seems to demand a robust political response through curriculum and pedagogy. However, as this examination of...

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...