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Penney, Dawn; Petrie, Kirsten; Fellows, Sam – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
This paper centres on research that investigated the contemporary policy, curriculum and pedagogical landscape of Health and Physical Education (HPE) in Aotearoa New Zealand, in the light of increasing impressions that provision was moving to an "open market" situation. Publicly available information sourced via the Internet was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Health Education, Educational Policy
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Percy, Alisa – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This paper argues for the re-integration of academic development (AD) and a academic language and learning (ALL) practitioners in Australian higher education. This argument is made as universities aim to develop internationally recognised, inter-disciplinary and standards-based curricula against the backdrop of international comparative education…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
Comber, Barbara, Ed.; Simpson, Anne, Ed. – 2001
This book brings together accounts of educators who have sought to make a difference in the lives of their students through literacy education--from university classrooms in the United States, England, and South Africa, to policy and curriculum development in Singapore and Australia. The literacy classrooms explored in the book range from the…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Classroom Environment, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development
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Ensor, Paula – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
This article describes efforts from the mid-1990s in South Africa to reshape higher education curricula, and the responses of universities to a series of policy initiatives concerned with higher education curriculum reform. Pressures of globalisation and the local challenges of reconstruction and development formed the context in which higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational History, Curriculum Development