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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Curriculum documents"”.
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Trends in home economics education : an analysis of curriculum documents in Zimbabwe and South Africa
… subjects were introduced in secondary school curriculum for both general education and labour market reasons, that is, for the preparation of pupils to 'enter employment' and/or for 'self employment'. Over the years national education planners have debated over the future of …
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Learning History to Understand the Present: Exploring Aspects of Historical Mindedness in Ontario’s High School History Curriculum, 2005-2013
This study investigates specific aspects of the curriculum documents for Ontario’s Grade 10 course Canadian History since World War I released in 2005 and 2013. This course is worthy of study as this is the only mandatory History course at the high school level in the province. For many students …
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Extending and exploring students' problem solving via problem posing
… as a useful mathematical activity in the curriculum documents of several countries, research about the types of problem-posing situations in which students could be involved, and about the effects of these problem-posing activities on students' mathematical performance is limited. The …
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Technology Partnership Curriculum Initiative: A Descriptive Case Study of its History, Development, and Implementation
… <p>Curricular reform has a pathetic history. Curriculum documents, some of the major tools of reformers, have had a minor effect on transforming education because the power of pedagogy has been ignored (Cuban, 1993). Teachers in the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) system voiced similar concerns …
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Using data to guide curriculum development : how curriculum developers use formative and summative assessment data to inform the written curriculum
… data are used to guide the development of curriculum documents in public school districts and within a commercial curriculum supplier. Two research questions guided this study: (a) How do public school districts in Central Texas use formative and summative assessment data to inform the …
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The trajectory of the shifts in academic and civic identity in South African and English secondary school History National Curriculums across two key reform moments
… and civic identities that four different history curriculums would seek to produce. The curriculum documents chosen are two South African (Curriculum 2005 [1997] and the Curriculum and Policy Statement [2011]) and two English (the first national curriculum [1991] and the most recent [2014] …
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“Citizenship is what you are, what you do, and how you appear in Front of Other People in [the] Society you Live”: Lessons on Gendered Citizenship in a Tanzanian School
… have been incorporated into the Tanzanian civics curriculum to raise awareness of gender inequality and champion gender empowerment strategies. To understand the effects of these gender-focused curricular inclusions on conceptions of female citizenship, this study provides an analysis of the …
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The status and quality of secondary science teaching and learning in Lagos State, Nigeria
… gathered from analysis of national and state curriculum documents and from focus groups of science teachers, school principals, parent association representatives, education officers, teacher educators, representatives of the professional association for science teachers and representatives of …
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Integration of Environmental Education into the mathematics curriculum of selected Zambian Basic and High Schools of Lusaka District
… particularly the educational planners and curriculum developers. The underlying objective of this study was to determine the integration and frequency of environmental concepts and topics in the pedagogic principles which constitutes the structure of the mathematics curriculum. It was also …
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Integration of Environmental Education into the mathematics curriculum of selected Zambian Basic and High Schools of Lusaka District
… particularly the educational planners and curriculum developers. The underlying objective of this study was to determine the integration and frequency of environmental concepts and topics in the pedagogic principles which constitutes the structure of the mathematics curriculum. It was also …
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Simultaneous and Sequential Bilinguals in a German Bilingual Program
… to 50% of the school day, and the corresponding curriculum documents are based on the assumption that the prototypical student speaks English at home and is learning the minority language as a second language at school. However, recent changes in immigration patterns in Canada have resulted in …
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Development and evaluation of a self-instruction method for analysing spatial information
… guidelines in the outcomes-based education curriculum documents was unsuccessful. Theories of spatial cognition, cartographic communication and 'real world' comprehension are related to the development of spatial competence. The potential for geographic information systems (GIS) to enhance …
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Conceptions of language and literacy and the role of digital technologies in Home, First and Second Additional language lessons: a case study of 6 grade four teachers in South African state schools.
… of language and literacy evident in the CAPS curriculum documents, teachers' pedagogical approaches, and the multilingual reality of classrooms in South Africa. This research study asks whether the current promotion of digital technologies in classrooms, so evident in both South Africa and in …
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Inclusive teaching practice in the Jewish day school: general studies teachers' experiences /
… 4 classrooms in 2 traditionally structured dual curriculum Jewish day schools. Data analysis of qualitative open-ended interviews, classroom observations, postobservation discxissions, and school and formal curriculum documents yielded understandings about the participants' inclusive practice and …
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Using hypermedia to improve the dissemination and accessibility of syllabus documents with particular reference to primary mathematics
… Can the advantages of hypermedia be extended to curriculum materials that are for the sole use of teachers? To consider this question, three areas needed to be investigated: hypermedia (the medium); teachers (the target) and curriculum documents (the content). Hypermedia has a long history dating …
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Sexual tension : the imagined learner projected through the recontextualising of sexual knowledge into pedagogic communication in two curricula in South Africa and Ontario, Canada
… discourses present in two sets of sex education curriculum documents - one from South Africa and one from Ontario, Canada. It did so to make visible the imagined learner projected by these curricula in the recontextualising of sexual knowledge into pedagogic communication. Using a deductive …
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Využívání digitálních technologií dětmi v předškolním věku a rozvoj digitální pregramotnosti
… for the development of education and other curriculum documents of the Czech Republic. Some Czech and international entities and institutions dedicated to the issue of safe use of the Internet and other environments and educational programs suitable for preschool children are presented here. …
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Teaching cosplay: A theoretical curriculum using critical pedagogy and visual culture art education
… (VCAE) to create a college-level cosplay curriculum. The intention of this curriculum is to promote students to think critically about their interaction with popular culture and fandom, to explore the construction of identity, and to use cosplay as a form of artistic practice. I developed …
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An Historical Examination of the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum in Ontario Through Two Lenses: Curriculum Policy Documents and Reflections of Leaders in the Field
The secondary mathematics curriculum in Ontario has gone through many revisions and renewals during the past 60 years. Current curriculum and policy documents are readily available, yet previous documents are not easily accessible. There is a dearth of literature on historical changes to the …
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The history of secondary school science education in New Zealand
… educational organisations such as recent curriculum documents and policy reports. Interviews with a former Auckland Girls’ Grammar principal and a former student and teacher from Baradene comprise the third study. The analysis of the empirically obtained data revealed the existence of a …
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