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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
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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
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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
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Lyakhova, Sofya; Joubert, Marie; Capraro, Mary Margaret; Capraro, Robert M. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
Trends in curriculum reform recognise the need to develop skills and competencies in addition to specifying what knowledge should be taught and when. However, a balance between skills and knowledge is sometimes difficult to achieve. In this paper which takes mathematics as the focus, we consider reform currently underway in Wales, from the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
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Ormond, Barbara Mary – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
This paper explores the challenges for teachers in positioning them as independent curriculum makers. History teachers in New Zealand have recently entered uncharted territory with the abandonment of prescribed topics for history and a new-found authority to determine the selection of historical knowledge taught to their senior secondary students.…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Curriculum Development, Professional Autonomy, History Instruction
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Westbury, Ian – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
Previous papers in this issue of "JCS" have presented case studies of the state-based curriculum commissions that developed the "Illinois Learning Standards" of 1997 and Norway's "Laereplanverket 1997" ("L97") (1997). The studies were developed using as a framework a body of German research that sees…
Descriptors: Case Studies, State Curriculum Guides, Reflection, National Curriculum
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Huijgen, Tim; van de Grift, Wim; van Boxtel, Carla; Holthuis, Paul – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2018
The aim of this explorative study was to develop and test a pedagogy aimed at promoting students' ability to perform historical contextualization. Teaching historical contextualization was conceptualized in terms of four pedagogical design principles: (1) making students aware of the consequences of a present-oriented perspective when examining…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Pretests Posttests, History Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Rosenmund, Moritz – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
Why should we assume systematic comparative research on state-based curriculum-making to be possible at all, given the high complexity and large variety of institutional forms of educational and political systems across nation-states? On the other hand, how can we explain the significant endeavour of nation-states all over the world to align their…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, National Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
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Sivesind, Kirsten; Westbury, Ian – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This case study of the development of the Norwegian compulsory school curriculum of 1997, "Laereplanverket 1997," parallels a study of the development of the "Illinois Learning Standards" of 1997. The pair of case studies is designed to explore the administration of state-based curriculum-making and, in particular, the use in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Westbury, Ian – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This case study of the development of the "Illinois Learning Standards" of 1997 parallels a study of the development of the Norwegian compulsory school curriculum of 1997, "Laereplanverket 1997." The pair of case studies is designed to explore the administration of state-based curriculum-making and, in particular, the use of…
Descriptors: State Curriculum Guides, State Standards, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Westbury, Ian; Aspfors, Jessica; Fries, Anna-Verena; Hansén, Sven-Erik; Ohlhaver, Frank; Rosenmund, Moritz; Sivesind, Kirsten – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This paper introduces the questions and approaches of a five-nation cross-cultural study of state-based curriculum-making discussed in this issue of "JCS." The paper reviews the two decade-long interest of many nations in state-based curriculum-making and presents a framework for thinking about state-based curriculum-making as a tool of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Cross Cultural Studies
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Sivesind, Kirsten; Westbury, Ian – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This paper frames the problem underlying the cross-cultural Organizing Curriculum Change (OCC) study of state-based curriculum-making. The paper discusses the increased use by states over the past two decades of the century-old instrument of the state-based curriculum and the tool of the curriculum commission. The paper contrasts the slender…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Westbury, Ian; Sivesind, Kirsten – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
The paper identifies three tools that support the administrative instrument of a state-based curriculum commission: compartmentalization, licensing, and segmentation. These tools channel the state's curriculum-making towards forms of symbolic rather than regulatory action. The state curriculum becomes a framework for the ideological governance of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, State Curriculum Guides
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Mølstad, Christina Elde – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
This article investigates how state authorities in Norway and Finland design national curriculum to provide different policy conditions for local curriculum work in municipalities and schools. The topic is explored by comparing how national authorities in Norway and Finland create a scope for local curriculum. The data consist of interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, National Curriculum, Curriculum Design
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Buckley, Lecretia A. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2010
Mathematics education aimed at empowering students for economic and democratic participation must address two critical issues: the long-standing function of mathematics as a gatekeeper, and the complicated nature of designing and implementing systematic reform at the school department level. The study reported here examines a curricular redesign…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Mathematics Education, Educational Change
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