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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"curriculum policy"”.
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Art education in art museums: Curriculum, policy, and culture
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Curriculum Development as a Subversive Activity? Discourse and Ideology in the Evolution of Curriculum Policy in Ireland 1980-2005
This is a study of the evolution of curriculum policy and the discourses that have accompanied it. Three inter-related issues comprise the essential focus of the research: firstly, the manner in which curriculum discourse has evolved over the period in question, as the locus of activity has moved …
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A critique of how the foundation phase curriculum policy document, CAPS, addresses the literacy needs of young learners in South Africa
… quality of their lives. While engaging with the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) document in Grades 2 and 3 in an urban school in Cape Town, South Africa, from April 2018 to December 2019, some key issues of concern were highlighted, which I hope to address through this study. …
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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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Health, the Body, and Movement: What Is Health and Physical Education For? A Critical Policy Analysis of Health and Physical Education Curriculum Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand, China, and Japan
… examines the health and physical education (HPE) curriculum policies of Aotearoa New Zealand, China, and Japan to investigate how HPE is represented in each nation state. Global health discourses surrounding concerns such as obesity and physical inactivity among young people increasingly position …
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Teacher participation in curriculum decision making : a study of teachers' opinions on history education at secondary schools in the Cape Peninsula
The current debates about curriculum policy decision making and the empirical investigation into the teaching of history in South Africa undertaken by the Human Sciences Research Council (1989-1991) have prompted this study. The research undertaken attempts to examine how history teachers' opinions …
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Citizenship education in the global era : a comparative case study of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
… to describe how globalisation is translated into curriculum designed to prepare children for life in the global era. It presents the findings from a comparative case study in the North and South of Ireland, focusing on how the curriculum policy, Principals, teachers and children from two secondary …
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The Role of Knowledge and Perceived Level of Self-Efficacy on Junior Division Teachers’ Implementation of Physical Literacy in Ontario
… Health and Physical Education, Grades 1-8 (HPE) curriculum policy document identifies physical literacy as a key component of the overall vision and goal of the subject. Teachers play a primary role with the implementation of the HPE curriculum policy document and as a result can significantly …
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Curriculum -Sensitive Assessment: A Psychometric Study of Tracking as a Distributor of Opportunity to Learn High School Mathematics
… analyses show that intended and implemented curriculum matters, and that it affects the student achievement (attained curriculum). Curricular implications show the need for curriculum policy makers to reduce tracking practices and to provide an enriched, rigorous curriculum to all students.
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The relations between the formal structure of educational governance and classroom practice
… those concerned with school governance that policy makers can and do steer school practice through such instruments as external tests and examinations, teacher evaluation systems, teacher certification codes, mandated curricula, and the like (Cohen, 1990; Cohen and Spillane, 1992). It seems …
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Differing social positions and the realisation of evaluative criteria for transactional writing in the senior grades
… are specified for the Grade 11 level in current curriculum policy. Finding that the requirements are poorly specified, or weakly framed, the study addressed the question of what criteria teachers draw on in assessing transactional writing if not criteria offered by the curriculum.
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“Who your teacher is does matter”: the lived experiences of history and citizenship teachers in Northern Ireland and the consequences for pedagogical practice
… that education, through the formal school curriculum, can make a valuable contribution to promoting social cohesion in deeply fractured societies. In order for education’s socially transformative potential to be realised, systemic synergy between the vision of educational policy-makers and …
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The role of school managers in maintaining discipline in primary schools
… lack of knowledge and skills on management and curriculum policy which influences school manager not to play their expected roles. However the variety of these challenges contributes towards poor discipline in schools. Researcher concluded by reflecting on what readers could learn from the …
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Civics in American Public Schools: State Constitutions and the Right to an Education
… gives states the authority for public education policy. Because states have different constitutional standards for education, civics requirements have little national consistency. This thesis explores the connections between state constitutional provisions for public education and graduation …
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Kaupapa Māori Science
… and ethos, in order to inform further Pūtaiao curriculum development. The research project is a narration of the larger story of Pūtaiao education: what is the current situation, how did it come about, what theoretical issues have been influential in this process, and what possibilities are …
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Curriculum Design in New Zealand Social Studies: Learning from the Past
This thesis is sourced in a practical problem of curriculum design. As part of the current Ministry of Education Curriculum Project, the outcomes of New Zealand social studies are being “clarified and refined” through the development of an “essence statement” and revised curriculum structure. Given …
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Teaching and learning of number concept in Chinese primary classroom
… concept, has been and is undergoing changes, as policy regulations within the Chinese schooling system also undergo transformation. The findings further suggest that the introduction of learner-centred teaching into the Chinese curriculum policy framework has not significantly, if at all, …
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Is What They Get What They Really Need? Critical Analysis of Professional Development Models Used With Elementary Science Teachers in One School District in South Africa
… that negatively impacted the success of the new curriculum reforms in the district. (b) Teachers believed that they were not being developed and that their needs were not being addressed. The perceptions about the district PDM played a critical role in how teachers received the new curriculum …
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Constructions of Shakespeare in the secondary school curriculum
… a compulsory component of the English National Curriculum.<br/>Employing a case study framework enables the investigation to encompass a dual purpose, both exploratory and illustrative, raising open questions about ways in which four different teachers construct Shakespeare discursively and …
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