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Mikser, Rain; Viirpalu, Piret; Krull, Edgar – Curriculum Journal, 2023
Teachers' feeling of curriculum ownership has been found to be crucial for predicting the success of educational reform initiatives. This study aimed to examine how teachers' feelings of curriculum ownership are reflected in their statements about what they mean by the term 'curriculum'. We analysed written questionnaire responses from 760…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Curriculum, Teacher Attitudes
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Wright, Paul M.; Gray, Shirley; Richards, K. Andrew R. – Curriculum Journal, 2021
Social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies such as self-management and relationship skills are associated with positive outcomes for youth. Therefore, educational policies in many countries emphasise the integration of these competencies throughout the curriculum and specifically in physical education (PE). However, little research has…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Physical Education, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Hannah, Darren; Sinnema, Claire; Robinson, Viviane – Curriculum Journal, 2022
Curriculum reforms often fail because teachers are asked to implement approaches to teaching and learning that are contrary to their beliefs about students and how to teach them. Since curriculum reforms are attempts to resolve particular educational problems, failures in implementation produce parallel failures to resolve the problem for which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Secondary School Curriculum, Junior High Schools
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Ellili-Cherif, Maha; Hadba, Hala Mohamed – Curriculum Journal, 2017
Educational institutions in the Arab Gulf are requiring rapid changes to enhance English language learning to keep up with globalization and economic growth. This urges the need for investigating policy changes such as effectiveness in curriculum orientations and their impact on the actual process of teaching in order to gauge how educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Fidelity, Teacher Attitudes
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Atai, Mahmood Reza; Mazlum, Farhad – Curriculum Journal, 2013
The present study investigates English language teaching (ELT) curriculum planning in Iran's Ministry of Education and its implementation by teachers. We studied programme evaluation; needs analysis; the ELT-specific documents; communication channels between planning and practice levels; teacher evaluation and student assessment; interpretation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Edwards, Richard; Miller, Kate; Priestley, Mark – Curriculum Journal, 2009
Drawing upon research in the curriculum of hospitality, this article explores the contrasting ways in which the prescribed curriculum is translated into the enacted curriculum in school and college contexts. It identifies organisational culture and teacher and student backgrounds and dispositions as central to the emerging contrasts. It uses this…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Organizational Culture