Curriculum planning and development

This book responds to challenging questions about curricular realignment, especially how a more porous approach to higher education reduces the impact of a "e;siloed"e; curriculum, lessens the tendency toward the fragmentation of knowledge, allows for the development of cross-disciplinary explorations, and promotes new approaches to knowledge and creativity through interdisciplinary integrative learning.

This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan.

This book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education.

This book brings together voices and perspectives from across the world and draws in a new generation of curriculum scholars to provide fresh insight into the contemporary field.

This book draws on five philosophers from the continental tradition - Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Ranciere - in order to "e;think about thinking"e; and offer new and surprising answers to the question: How can we educate students to think creatively and critically?

This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid.

This edited volume examines new ways of teaching mathematics through a cross-cultural reciprocal learning project between sister schools in Canada and China.

This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society.

This book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement.

This book explores how Australian secondary schools prepare their students for global citizenship.

This book presents the important role of mathematics in the teaching of financial education.

This book introduces the specifics of mathematics lesson study with regard to regional/national particularities, discussing the methodological and theoretical tools that can be used to pursue research on lesson study (its forms, contents, effects etc.

This book contrasts authentic approaches to education with classroom practices based primarily on standards external to the individuals who are supposed to learn.

This book has been designed to add to the study and experience of early childhood ideas and experience in an international context.

This book argues for the importance of literature studies using the historical debate between the disinterested disciplines ("e;art for art's sake"e;) and utilitarian or productive disciplines.

Winner of the 2019 AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Outstanding Book AwardThis book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy.

This book explores how educators can realize the potential of critical place-based pedagogy.

This book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component.

This book offers a unique blend of writing from a broad range of international perspectives, showing interdisciplinary research approaches to decolonising curriculum knowledge.

This book traces the early history of the Montessori movement in the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle.

This book presents the views of leading scholars, academics, and educators on the renewal of Islamic schools in the Western context.

This book analyses discourses of effective learning environments globally.

This book examines the effects of education exchange on educational sovereignty in Indonesia.

This book discusses current challenges related to teaching geography, mainly at the secondary school and higher education level.

This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research.

This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which the education relation takes place.

Reading instruction is the most legislated area of education and the most frequently referenced metric for measuring educational progress.

Since its original publication, Conflicts in Curriculum Theory has firmly established itself as the key volume that not only advanced alternative ways to think about education and curriculum but also introduced innovative scholarship and a radical conceptual grammar for the field.

This book draws on a longitudinal study which highlights the beneficial impact of film in the primary curriculum.

This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field.

In this book geography educators from around the globe discuss their research into the power of geographical thinking and consider successful strategies to implement, improve and advance geography education in research and practice.

In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better engage students in the work of citizenship and social justice.

This book explores community education in Ireland and argues that neoliberalism has had a profound effect on community education.

In this book international geography educators discuss the ways in which geographical knowledge is recontextualised in schools and consider effective approaches to facilitate, improve and advance geography education in research and practice.

This book examines educational semiotics and the representation of knowledge in school science.

This book examines the development of civic education in the United States through the lives of two teachers at Shortridge High School (SHS) in Indianapolis around 1900.

This book is a narrative inquiry that focuses on four participating Chinese teacher candidates' cross-cultural learning in Canada and stories of induction in Southwest China.

Based on the authors' over 30 years of practical research experience, this book shows how situation curriculum design illustrates the new idea of "e;combining subject curricula with children's activities.

This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to cultural identity, set against the current backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education.

This book first develops a framework to understand the curriculum administration system in China.

This book introduces Chinese educational reforms and developments rolled out in the year 2014, examining them from both macro and micro perspectives and pursuing a mixed-methods approach.

This book consists of a collection of selected papers presented at the TARC International Conference 2016 held from 17 to 18 October, 2016.

In a frank contemplation as she nears the end of her shortened course of life, educator Sie Siok Hui reveals moments of epiphany while honing her craft and examines critical factors in the curriculum design process.

This book presents key issues in the teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language (TCSL or TCFL).

Given the increasing speed of change and the information explosion around the world, this book draws attention to the practice of teaching for conceptual understanding, which has been heralded as an effective approach within many curriculum frameworks.

This book advocates for a radical change in music teaching and learning methods, allowing for a break from the traditional conservatory model still in use in many classrooms.

This book stems from the 2019 meeting of the UNESCO UNITWIN international network for Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development.

This book examines current context-specific trends and developments in empirical research on arts education and arts in education, in order to evaluate and create responsive approaches to future global challenges.

This book brings together significant international research in technology education through a focus on contemporary Ph.