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Rebecca Morris, Editor; Thomas Perry, Editor – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
This text presents an informative overview of Conservative-led education policy over the last 14 years. The book provides a broad and detailed picture of the developing education landscape in England during this period, highlighting the transformational and sometimes 'radical' reforms that the country has seen. Crucially, the book draws together…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Development, Educational Change
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Turner, Nancy K.; Healey, Mick; Bens, Susan – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Institutional approaches to curriculum development often privilege outcome over process. This paper explores the use of an adapted Change Academy approach, originally developed for teams from different institutions, to supporting teams from different disciplines within the same institution. The approach was evaluated through analysis of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Change Strategies, Educational Change
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Sharmaine Itwaru – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2024
While the notion of an anti-racist curriculum is not new, many higher education instructors have not made the transition from a decolonized curriculum to an equally decolonized pedagogy. From a conceptual standpoint, the transition is understood but the actualization of this cyclical process is, at times, not as smoothly executed. Deconstructing…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship
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Rebecca B. Orr; Cara Gormally; Peggy Brickman – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
The Vision and Change report called for biology educators to transform undergraduate biology education. The report recommended educators transparently state what students should know and be able to do and create assessments to measure student learning. Using backward design, learning objectives (LOs) can serve as the basis for course…
Descriptors: Science Education, Biology, Undergraduate Study, Literature Reviews
Susan R. Sandall; Ariane Gauvreau; Gail E. Joseph; Ilene S. Schwartz – Brookes Publishing Company, 2024
Prepare early childhood educators to teach all children in inclusive settings with the fourth edition of this bestselling guidebook--enhanced with new content, new topics, and more tools for planning effective instruction. Like the groundbreaking previous editions, this updated "Building Blocks" guide gives pre- and in-service teachers…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inclusion, Teaching Guides, Preschool Teachers
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Kozoll, Richard H.; Ower, Peter S. – Science Education International, 2023
Research-based science curriculum has become a common means of supporting best practices in science teaching. In response to his middle school's transition from one such commercially available science curriculum to another, a seventh-grade science teacher elected to make certain changes to the newly adopted curriculum in its first year of use.…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Professional Identity, Individual Development
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Brancaccio-Taras, Loretta; Awong-Taylor, Judy; Linden, Monica; Marley, Kate; Reiness, C. Gary; Uzman, J. Akif – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2022
In an attempt to redesign science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments to be more inclusive of all student populations, institutions of higher learning are reviewing their programs, policies, and the ways they engage students. The Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) has been working with STEM…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, STEM Education, Diversity, Equal Education
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Petersen, Christina I.; Baepler, Paul; Beitz, Al; Ching, Paul; Gorman, Kristen S.; Neudauer, Cheryl L.; Rozaitis, William; Walker, J. D.; Wingert, Deb – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Instructors have inherited a model for conscientious instruction that suggests they must cover all the material outlined in their syllabus, and yet this model frequently diverts time away from allowing students to engage meaningfully with the content during class. We outline the historical forces that may have conditioned this teacher-centered…
Descriptors: Course Content, Evidence Based Practice, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning
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Volmari, Saija – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2022
As evidence has become the predominant requirement for decision-making on policy in modern democracies, the importance of experts has increased tremendously. Education reforms are no exception. International organizations have gained power globally in national education policy and politics, particularly through the data they produce and the policy…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Power Structure, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Underwood, Sonia M.; Kararo, Alex T. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
While there have been an increasing number of evidence-based instructional strategies propagated, less literature exists on how to propagate a curriculum. This paper is meant to present how the theory of "Design-Based Implementation Research" (DBIR) can be used as a framework to propagate such innovative curricula. DBIR is a research…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
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Cushing, Ian – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
Education policy in England's schools is driven by the 'what works' agenda, characterised by interventions claiming to be scientifically objective and evidence-led. In this article I show how what works interventions reproduce anti-Black linguistic racism because to be perceived as someone who is 'working', racialised children must assimilate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Students, Blacks, Racial Composition
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Edelson, Daniel C.; Reiser, Brian J.; McNeill, Katherine L.; Mohan, Audrey; Novak, Michael; Mohan, Lindsey; Affolter, Renee; McGill, Tara A. W.; Buck Bracey, Zoë E.; Deutch Noll, Jamie; Kowalski, Susan M.; Novak, Dawn; Lo, Abraham S.; Landel, Carolyn; Krumm, Andrew; Penuel, William R.; Van Horne, Katie; González-Howard, María; Suárez, Enrique – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
OpenSciEd is an ambitious effort to implement the vision of the "Framework for K-12 Science Education" and the "Next Generation Science Standards" broadly across the United States. The premise of OpenSciEd is that high quality instructional materials can play a critical role in transforming science teaching and learning at a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Materials, Educational Change
Starr, Joshua P. – Harvard Education Press, 2022
With a visionary approach to school improvement, "Equity-Based Leadership" proposes a framework to support system leaders seeking to organize change and achieve more equitable education. In this ambitious yet pragmatic work, Joshua P. Starr makes the case that intentional and attentive district leadership can bring about continuous…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Educational Improvement
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Barthelemy, Ramón; Lenz, MacKenzie; Knaub, Alexis; Gerton, Jordan; Sandick, Pearl – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
In 2017 the University of Utah experienced a tragedy which catalyzed already active changes in the department. In the aftermath, admissions to the graduate program was paused while new policies were developed and implemented. This article outlines this change process through the perspectives and accounts of those involved. Through in-depth…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Educational Change, State Universities
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Zhao, Wenjun; Huang, Rongjin; Cao, Yiming; Ning, Rui; Zhang, Xiaoxia – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to explore how a Chinese lesson study (LS) supports a teacher's learning of transforming curriculum reform ideas into classroom practices. Design/methodology/approach: Data analyzed in this study included lesson plans, three videotaped research lessons, three audio-taped group meetings, interviews, the teacher's reflection…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Lesson Plans, Curriculum Development, Educational Practices
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