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Bron, Jeroen G. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2014
Students negotiate their social studies classroom curriculum, enhancing 21st century skills, citizenship education and human rights in the present study. Curriculum negotiation augments student engagement, giving them opportunities to practice and so experience citizenship. In the process students develop abilities related to 21st century skills…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education
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Acedo, Clementina; Hughes, Conrad – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This article addresses the core competences, attitudes and knowledge that the authors believe will promote transformative learning in the 21st century and should, therefore, feature in curriculum design. It first defines the purpose of curriculum, stressing the need for a coherent worldwide understanding of what is meant and intended by…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Minimum Competencies, Competence, Transformative Learning
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Higgins, David; Galloway, Laura – Industry and Higher Education, 2014
The field of entrepreneurship has struggled with fundamental questions concerning the subject's nature and purpose. To whom and to what means are educational and training agendas ultimately directed? Such questions have become of central importance to policy makers, practitioners and academics alike. There are suggestions that university business…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Entrepreneurship, Reflection
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Czerkawski, Betul C. – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2014
Deeper learning promotes students' active engagement in learning environments, so they can continuously explore, reflect and produce information to build complex knowledge structures. Consequently, deeper learning has become a major focus of scholarly investigation and debate. Multiple studies have been conducted to describe the…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Online Courses, Curriculum Design, Learner Engagement
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Renard, Helene – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Design thinking is a way of understanding and engaging with the world that has received much attention in academic and business circles in recent years. This article examines a hands-on learning model as a vehicle for developing design thinking capacity in students. An overview of design thinking grounds the discussion of the material-based…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Experiential Learning, Inquiry
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Petrie, Kirsten; Penney, Dawn; Fellows, Sam – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
Internationally, recent research has indicated that the health and physical education (HPE) curriculum has become at least to some extent "an open market", with rapid growth in the number of external providers and diversity of resources targeted towards schools and teachers. This research acknowledges that the programmes and instruction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Physical Education, Outsourcing
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Fenwick, Lisl; Humphrey, Sally; Quinn, Marie; Endicott, Michele – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
The development of deep understanding of theoretical knowledge is an essential element of successful tertiary-programs that prepare individuals to enter professions. This study investigates the extent to which an emphasis on the application of knowledge within curriculum design, teaching strategies and assessment methods developed deep knowledge…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design, Questionnaires
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Gibbs, Paul – Studies in Continuing Education, 2014
In the shift to a more clearly economic imperative for universities than social good, the relationship between higher education teaching and professional practice has become increasingly apparent. It is seen in the courses offered by universities, and the relationship with employment and employers advocated by government and funding agencies. From…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Educational Practices, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design
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Green-Gibson, Andrea; Collett, April – Multicultural Education, 2014
The public educational system is comprised of diverse demographics wherein each student has a distinct cultural personal history (O'Brien, 1998). In America, the traditional perception was that a melting pot society existed. But deMarrais and LeCompte (1999) maintain that a stew pot or salad bowl would be a more appropriate analogy. Melting pot…
Descriptors: African American Students, Urban Schools, Public Schools, African Culture
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Croft, Michael; de Berg, Kevin – Science & Education, 2014
This paper selects six key alternative conceptions identified in the literature on student understandings of chemical bonding and illustrates how a historical analysis and a textbook analysis can inform these conceptions and lead to recommendations for improving the teaching and learning of chemical bonding at the secondary school level. The…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students, Scientific Concepts, Comprehension
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Wu, Darren C. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
Although complex, controversial, and contradicting, learning styles is highly influential. Distance education (DE) has experienced tremendous growth in the last few decades. The popularity of learning styles and DE necessitates research. This correlational research study was conducted to determine if there is any evidence to incorporate learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Distance Education, Correlation, Educational Research
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O'Neill, Geraldine; Donnelly, Roisin; Fitzmaurice, Marian – International Journal for Academic Development, 2014
Curriculum sequencing is central to promoting a coherent student experience. Yet in the higher education context, the concept and practice of curriculum sequencing have not been fully explored. This research examined how seven programme teams approached the issue of sequencing across two Irish higher education institutions. A phenomenological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Sequential Approach, Higher Education
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Brewer, Margo; Flavell, Helen; Harris, Courtney; Davis, Melissa; Bathgate, Katherine – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2014
Curtin University introduced an interprofessional first year curriculum in the Faculty of Health Sciences in 2011. This curriculum, now delivered to over 3,300 first year health science students annually, consists of five common compulsory units, eight optional units (specific to several courses) and one discipline specific unit for each course.…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Health Sciences, Competency Based Education
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Crisp, Jeffrey T. – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2014
Gamification of learning and assessment will require new approaches to defining tasks as teachers will need to decide how to incorporate diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment components within a more holistic educational environment. Game theory will be blended with learning theory in curriculum design and will result in the redesign of…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Holistic Approach, Learning Theories
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Eaton, Carrie Diaz; Highlander, Hannah Callender – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Calculus is one of the primary avenues for initial quantitative training of students in all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, but life science students have been found to underperform in the traditional calculus setting. As a result, and because of perceived lack of its contribution to the understanding of biology, calculus…
Descriptors: Calculus, Biology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Design
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