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This research explores relationship building and improvements in knowledge, skills, and dispositions of pre-service teachers enrolled in an Indigenous education content and pedagogy methods course. The study shows significant gains made by pre-service teachers in each of the target areas, and affirms that methods coursework in American Indian education can lead to more interculturally competent teacher candidates.
Published: 2017
Updated: May. 14, 2017
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In the two last decades, educational development has become a mature and internationally recognised discipline. Writing about teaching, learning and assessment has helped to describe, analyse and affect practice, and to change the way in which educational development as a profession has become regarded. This article provides a personal selection of 20 key books that have been highly influential, with the aim of promoting debate both on the choice of texts and the future of educational development books in the next 20 years.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jun. 05, 2016
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This paper presents a study on the development of the Finnish National Core Curricula for Basic Education (NCC), published in 1985, 1994 and 2004. This study aimed to extend the understanding of the role of the core curriculum in promoting literacy education. The analysis reflected on the basis of Finnish literacy education resting on curricula over 25 years old. The six changes in approach detected in curricula content over 30 years reveal that the educational orientations to literacy curricula have developed alongside the contemporary policy strategies and pedagogical trends of responding to increasingly complex diversity within schools. The author concludes that teacher education needs to focus on preparing teachers for future-oriented, proactive curriculum design.
Published: 2013
Updated: Nov. 24, 2015
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This study examines student participation in curriculum design at course and programme levels at three higher education institutes at UK, Ireland and USA. Case study methodology and critical theory provided the framework for the research study. This research has outlined a range of different approaches to co-creating curricula. In these examples, student participation has been reported to increase levels of individual and collective student responsibility for their learning, and enhance student performance and teachers’ satisfaction.
Published: 2014
Updated: Oct. 21, 2015
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The primary purpose of this study was to identify the curriculum orientation profiles of pre-service teachers participating in the teacher education programs at the Hashemite University in Jordan. Rigorous translation procedures were utilized to validate an Arabic version of the Curriculum Orientation Inventory (COI) for use in Jordan. The results of the factor analysis indicated that five latent factors with 29 items emerged from the Jordanian data highly consistent with the English version of the COI. Results also indicated that pre-service teachers valued all the curriculum orientations to various degrees. Specifically, they highly valued the Cognitive Process orientation followed by the Social Reconstruction orientation and the Humanistic orientation.
Published: 2012
Updated: Jun. 10, 2014
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The current paper focuses on how the curriculum is governed by comparative knowledge. Particularly, the article identifies how this facet of governance has manifested itself within the policy space of England’s National Curriculum reforms. While international comparative logic within England’s National Curriculum could be regarded as a manifestation of a European-wide governing technology, the article suggests that the distinctiveness of ‘Europe’ is at risk of being lost to dominant global knowledge paradigms which are also an integral part of the ‘governance by comparison’ process.
Published: 2012
Updated: Sep. 15, 2013
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In this article, the authors used the Interconnected Model of Professional Growth to identify processes of teacher learning during the collaborative design of curriculum materials in the context of curriculum innovation. Nine published studies from six different countries about teachers’ collaborative curriculum design were analyzed to identify the learning processes that collaborative curriculum design fosters.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jul. 30, 2012
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In this article, the authors describe professional growth of three Dutch teachers during the development and subsequent class enactment of student learning material for a context-based chemistry curriculum. This network consisted of three experienced chemistry teachers and A male coach employed by the teacher training department from a university was chair of the network. The results show that the development of learning material can be seen as a training program to prepare teachers for an innovation. Furthermore, teachers’ knowledge increased in all five pedagogical content knowledge domains during the development and class enactment phases.
Published: 2010
Updated: Dec. 21, 2010