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McCabe, Alan; O'Connor, Una – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
A student-centred approach to learning encourages students to have more responsibility for their learning and is a process that relies heavily on professional confidence to "let-go" of traditional teaching responsibilities. This paper describes the introduction of a student-centred approach within one further education college in…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, Teacher Role, Teacher Responsibility, Adult Education
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Cowan, Elaine M.; McMurtry, David C. – Curriculum Journal, 2009
Changes in society and government have increased concerns of low participation and involvement by people, especially the young, in the political process and decision-making. As a result, citizenship has become a focus of recent curriculum developments in many countries. In Scotland, "Values and Citizenship" has been made one of the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Implementation
Hyland, Aine, Ed. – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2011
The "Multiple Intelligences, Curriculum and Assessment Project" at University College Cork was a collaborative project carried out between 1995 and 1999. The key research question focused on whether Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences could be applied to, and enhance, aspects of curriculum and assessment at primary and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Action Research, Foreign Countries, Multiple Intelligences