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Fatih Karatas; Seval Fer – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
In the ever-evolving realm of educational research, the design and validation of curricula is gaining prominence. Ensuring both the internal and external validity of such designs is vital, with external validity, specifically applicability, highlighting the practical feasibility and relevance in real-world educational contexts. Drawing on Dewey's…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Curriculum Design, Educational Research, Validity
Cheng-Yu Hung – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
This article investigates how Indigenous peoples have been portrayed in citizenship education in Taiwan since the downfall of the authoritarian regime in 1987. The trajectory of citizenship curriculum development elucidates how attitudes towards cultural citizenship and multiculturalism came into play to form the narratives we find in schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Citizenship Education, Cultural Pluralism
Graham McPhail; Barbara Ormond; Alexis Siteine – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
This paper examines the extent to which there has been a shift towards disciplinary knowledge in recently developed curriculum documents in New Zealand and evaluates whether a new "Understand, Know, Do" structure for the curriculum has the potential to facilitate coherent design of teaching programmes and "deep learning." Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Intellectual Disciplines, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Marcus Gustafsson; Jorryt van Bommel; Yvonne Liljekvist – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
This study investigates resource use by upper-secondary mathematics teachers in the context of collaborative planning. A thematic content analysis is conducted on audio-recorded teacher discussions in order to find out what resources are used by the teachers, how they are used, and for what reasons. The findings show that although teachers use a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Curriculum
Tiril Smerud Finnanger; T. S. Prøitz – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Against the backdrop of curriculum reform in Norway, this article presents a study of teacher involvement and influence in national curriculum making through participation in official commentary processes. Education policy documents presented teacher involvement in the reform as essential to the legitimacy and ownership of the curriculum in…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Teacher Participation
Deng, Zongyi – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Building on and going beyond Young and Muller's theory of powerful knowledge, this article seeks to articulate a model of a future-oriented, knowledge-rich curriculum by invoking David Lambert's "capabilities" approach and "Bildung"-centred "Didaktik." The curriculum is "knowledge rich" in three respects.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Curriculum Design, Outcomes of Education
Comber, Barbara; Hayes, Debra – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
This article examines teachers' work as part of the everyday life of classrooms, schools and communities--as curriculum design, dynamic pedagogies and as an oeuvre which is assembled over time. One of the hardest aspects of the everyday work of teachers, and perhaps one of the most under-rated and under-studied, is listening, really listening.…
Descriptors: Teachers, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship, Listening
Säily, Laura; Huttunen, Rauno; Heikkinen, Hannu L. T.; Kiilakoski, Tomi; Kujala, Tiina – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
In Finland, curriculum design is allegedly carried out through a deliberative process that involves various stakeholders, interest groups, experts and ordinary citizens. To facilitate participation in curriculum design, online crowdsourcing has been applied. The objective of this study is to explore to what extent the design process of the latest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Mathematics Curriculum
McPhail, Graham – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
The primary objective of this paper is to present a curriculum design model that extends the 'Powerful Knowledge' ideas of social realist theory. The Model called 'Curriculum Design Coherence' (CDC) hypothesizes an approach in which subject concepts and the subject's epistemic structure are central to the design process to enable deep learning.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Models, Epistemology, Realism
Knutsen, Ketil; Knutsen, Ingunn – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
This article discusses historical competence as reading and understanding use-of-history as it is expressed in different texts. Students need to develop competence in the use-of-history in order to approach the diversity and complexity of uses of history in our time. The use-of-history is also an aim in the curricula of Nordic countries. This…
Descriptors: History, Competence, History Instruction, Curriculum Design
Bouw, Erica; Zitter, Ilya; de Bruijn, Elly – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
This study focuses on the school-work connection from the perspective of curriculum design. The aim was to uncover considerations underpinning the design of learning environments in vocational education. The research took place in the Netherlands. A focus group methodology was chosen to elicit designers' considerations, which generally remain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Vocational Education, Educational Development
Harris, Richard – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
Using the notion of risk aversion, this study explores the decisions teachers make when constructing a curriculum. Adopting a qualitative, grounded approach, this study used semi-structured interviews with nine history teachers to examine the decisions they were making during a period of considerable curriculum change in England. Five key…
Descriptors: Risk, Decision Making, Curriculum Design, Educational Change
Sutton, Paul S.; Knuth, Randy – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
High school academic departments remain under-examined yet powerful entities in American high schools. High status department leaders create and sustain narratives around teaching and learning, disciplinary-specific best practices, and the overall efficacy and effectiveness of any number of school improvement policies and initiatives promoted by…
Descriptors: High Schools, Departments, Educational Change, Problem Based Learning
Gleeson, Jim; Klenowski, Valentina; Looney, Anne – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
Curriculum policies internationally are increasingly concerned with the promotion of national competitiveness and economic development. This involves more emphasis on skills than on knowledge, on learning than on teaching and on school/teacher autonomy than regulation from the centre. At the local level such global influences are inevitably…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Policy
Hung, Cheng-Yu – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
The new Taiwanese citizenship curriculum has converted its traditional bullet-point guidelines to hundreds of open-ended questions. Each question acts to initiate collective inquiry, to stimulate the sharing of lived experiences and to trigger within-class conversations. The previous pre-determined educational objectives and learning outcomes, in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries