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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"curriculum reforms"”.
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A Site of Conflict and Resistance: The Impact of the 2014 Curriculum Reforms on A’ Level Media Studies
… by the UK government’s 2014 educational reforms. Implemented in September 2017, these reforms represented a radical departure from what had gone before, and led to significant debate and discontent amongst the media teaching community. The study focuses on how these changes affected media …
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The Integration of Health Care Policy in Medical Education
Traditional medical school curriculums currently do not include introductory courses on various health care policy topics. The 2005-2006 U.T. Southwestern Congressional Health Care Fellowship activities are examined in this thesis, including Avian Influenza, the Ryan White Care Act reauthorization, …
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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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Children's Playground Music as Cultural Expressions in Ghanaian Schools
… music, provides some practical answers to curriculum reforms embarked upon in Ghana to lessen the disparity between playground music pedagogy and classroom pedagogy in Ghana. Finally, I offer recommendations to Ghanaian music educators for incorporating indigenous music and pedagogy.
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Constituting grammar and its pedagogy : the reform of the South African English Home Language intermediate phase curriculum between 1997 and 2012
Post-apartheid curriculum reform in South Africa has impacted the constitution and organisation of English language knowledge, including grammatical knowledge and its pedagogy. Additionally, changes in theoretical viewpoints on grammar instruction and early literacy instruction have influenced the …
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The role of the graphing calculator in teaching and learning of the concept of function : observations in a mathematics classroom
… perspectives. The effects of recent curriculum reforms in Quebec, current mathematics textbooks, the implementation of the graphing calculator in the teaching and the learning of the concept of function will be studied. The research literature will set the theoretical basis for this …
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Contentious Cosmopolitans: Black Public History and Civil Rights in Cold War Chicago, 1942-1972
… on Chicago's South side who tried to advance curriculum reforms through World War II and afterwards, the work of packinghouse workers and other union-focused educators who used anti-discrimination campaigns to teach about the history of African Americans and Mexican Americans in the labor …
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A policy evaluation of the Bologna Declaration and its impacts on the United States' leadership status in the globalized higher education market
… Europe has implemented several higher education reforms, including the Bologna Declaration, to increase their attractiveness, visibility, and competitiveness. In response to Europe’s initiatives, international student advocates like me are asking if international students will begin choosing …
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Japonų kolonijinio švietimo įtaka Taivano etninėms grupėms /
The subject of the bachelor's thesis is the reforms of Japanese colonial education in Taiwan and their influence on the ethnic groups of the island. The primary goal of the work is to find out what changes in the education system were made during the period of Japanese colonization in Taiwan and to …
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Teachers'preparedness on the implementation of the new Grade 8 Life Science curriculum in Oshigambo circuit, Oshikoto region, Namibia
… from primary school to high school grades. Reforms are driven by the ever-changing world economy and contemporary social issues which affect the education system as well as the curricula of the country. Life Science teachers might not be well prepared to implement such reforms, and this …
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Curriculum reform and identity politics in Iranian school textbooks : national and global representations of "race", ethnicity, social class and gender
… identity since the introduction of various curriculum reforms (i.e.: global education) after the Revolution of 1978-79. I draw upon antiracism and transnationalism as discourses of analysis through which the West-East dichotomy is (re)evaluated and interrogated within the context of Edward …
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Science Teachers Teaching Socioscientific Issues (Ssi): Four Case Studies
… part of this larger process. Second, the current curriculum reforms (STS, SSI, and NOS) only suggest theoretical ideals and do not effectively touch teachers' deeper values and ideals. Basically, the teachers are doing what they think is important for students and are developing their own …
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Exploring the pedagogy of civic education in social studies at junior secondary school in Masaiti district : a hermeneutic phenomenological approach.
… CEPCK framework in schools; (vi) MoE and Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) should collaborate and disintegrate Social Studies into standalone subjects; (vii) MoE should first conduct a feasibility study before any curriculum review; and (viii) MoE should first implement curriculum …
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Critical Thinking Instruction Through Project-Based Learning in Chinese EFL Classes- A Case Study in HE
… of Education has conducted a series of national curriculum reforms since 2017, aimed to cultivate university students' higher-order thinking skills. Although research in critical thinking pedagogy has attracted increasing attention in recent years, there is no consensus on it (Nagjie et al., …
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An investigation of performance-based assessment in science in Saudi primary schools
… constructivist learning theories and science curriculum reforms. Twelve science classes comprising 289 primary school students and six teachers in the city of Riyadh formed the sample for the study. Six classes were randomly selected and were instructed using a performance-based assessment …
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Calculation fluency: A mixed methods study in English Y6 primary classrooms
… and conceptual understanding, yet recent curriculum reforms in English schools prioritised formal algorithms and thus appeared to restrict calculation fluency in the classroom. This study explored calculation fluency among the first cohort of Year 6 learners (10- to 11-year-olds) studying …
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Transforming teaching through the transformative integration of emerging technologies in the ePlay MakerSpace: a critical, socio-cultural design-based study
… as a national priority. Three extensive curriculum reforms, intensified teacher professional development, and the provision of ETs, have however not achieved widespread and sustained change to teaching practices. This suggests that existing teacher professional development (TPD) …
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The teaching and learning of English at secondary school level in South Korea: The curriculum and its implementation
… analysis of the South Korean national curriculum and a sample of widely used textbooks. There has been widespread criticism of the teaching of English in South Korea since the curriculum reforms that were first manifested in the 6th national curriculum. That curriculum, later superseded …
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Teachers’ use of reform-oriented mathematics textbooks: A multiple-case study of Delhi government primary school teachers
… last two decades has introduced several policy reforms to improve primary school mathematics teaching and learning, especially to make it more accessible for children. One such policy, National Curriculum Framework – 2005, outlines the need for making mathematics relevant to all children and …
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Harmonizing core competencies for Master of Public Health Training programmes in Africa
… bureaucratic hurdles with integration into curriculums, resistance from faculty members, and resource limitations. Conclusion: This thesis used mixed methods in five different country settings, to identify the set of core competencies that are relevant to the public health work undertaken by …