In 2011, Sweden introduced explicit standards for the curriculum used in compulsory schooling through the implementation of 'knowledge requirements' that align content, abilities and assessment criteria. This article explores and analyses social science teachers' curriculum agency through a theoretical framework comprised of 'teacher agency' and…

Recently character education has been holding an important role for improving the human resources quality. This study aims to describe the strategy, the implementation and the results of character education in senior and vocational high schools in four provinces within the Java Island, Indonesia. The study was a phenomenology-type qualitative…

It is widely known that there is a discrepancy between educational policy on the one side, and teaching and learning practices on the other. Most studies have been focusing on the sociocultural and micropolitical frames that shape teachers' understandings and enactments of teaching, and that cause the vast diversity of classroom practices around…

The Curriculum of the Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) has implications for the Curriculum of the 9-year Basic Education (BEC) programme in Nigeria. Hence the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) came up with a vision of producing well motivated teachers with high professional integrity and competence. Both the in-service and…

Undergraduates frequently approach research methods classes with trepidation and skepticism, owing in part to math-phobia and confusion over how methodology is relevant to their interests. These self-defeating barriers to learning undermine the efficacy of methods classes. This essay discusses a strategy for overcoming these barriers--use of a…

Contemporary research has suggested for students in the U.S. to remain globally competitive in the 21st workforce, educators must shift from teaching subjects in isolation to integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Incorporating core subjects helps students make connections through content areas while engaging in…

In this study, the elements of the design and results of the implementation of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) based on the problem solving and the use of digital technology are analyzed and discussed. The results show that the design of the activities, the intervention of the MOOC design team in the discussion forums and the interaction among…

This article introduces the reader to past, current, and future trends in science teacher preparation and professional development in Vietnam. The authors rely on document analysis for data collection and focused analysis to describe the general education system and the mechanisms for teacher training in Vietnam from the past to the present.…

As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic spread throughout the world, universities were faced with extraordinary challenges. Shelter-in-place orders were given, in-person classes were canceled, and at the University of California Irvine, instructors had less than 2 weeks to convert spring quarter classes from a face-to-face to an online format. A team-based…

Hong Kong, as a capitalist society, has an achievement-driven education system. Visual arts have become a marginalized learning area, especially in early childhood education. Although 'art and creativity' is one of the six learning domains for early childhood education in the kindergarten curriculum guide in Hong Kong, product-oriented and…

Through the analysis of semi-structured interview responses from four school principals centered on their implementation of a new competencies based curriculum called Career and Technology Foundations (CTF), we sought to better understand their experience with implementing this new program of studies in its optional year of implementation. Four…

This paper reports an empirical study of teacher development in the process of implementing an integrated science curriculum in a junior high school in China. Six science teachers with different subject backgrounds were invited to participate in this study. A pragmatic model of teacher learning that includes both cognitive and situated-learning…

In this article, the authors argue that curriculum needs to change, bringing school knowledge into greater proximity to community 'problems that matter' (PTMs) and gathering students, community members, teachers and academics with relevant knowledge to work on the problem. Illustrating this orientation through a collaborative project in a local…

This study investigates the effect of E-learning (EL), blended learning (BL) and flipped learning (FL) approaches on the mathematics achievement, self-regulation and mathematics self-efficacy. Participants consist of 163 first-year students attending an associate degree program (a 2-year program) of a state university. The EL, BL and FL settings…

This paper focuses on how physical education (PE) teachers interpreted and implemented a new, minimalist and traditionalist National Curriculum for Physical Education (NCPE) in England. Utilising a single-method, cross-sectional design, 43 teachers participated in semi-structured interviews which explored their approach to teaching the new…