A National Curriculum

Different Interpretations of a National Curriculum: A Reflection on the Islamic Republic of Iran\'s Ratified Curriculum

Different Interpretations of a National Curriculum: A Reflection on the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ratified Curriculum N. Salsabili, Ph.D. Curriculum planning is a major task in any national educational system as it involves not only educational concerns, but socio-political and cultural issues as well. Given the variety of perspectives on each of these dimensions, it would be natural...

National Curriculum: What Do International Experiences Say?

The conceptions, practices and efforts of some education systems in ten countries and four continents of the world, in area of national curriculum, have been reviewed and analyzed in this inquiry to represent a brief look of their experiences and obtain some guidelines for delineating and developing national curriculum. The methodology in this inquiry has been descriptive and analytical researc...

Constructing the Curriculum: National Curriculum, Teachers' practice & Change

Physical education and the national curriculum.

In August 1991 the Department of Education and Science and the Welsh Office published their proposals for attainment targets and programmes of study in physical education (PE) for all children of compulsory school age (5-16 years) in maintained schools in England and Wales.' These were devised with the help of a working group that also offered proposals for assessment arrangements, though it is...

Diagrams in the UK National School Curriculum

We review the use of diagrams in the UK National School Curriculum (NC) and assess it in the light of current research on childrens’ graph comprehension. It is noted that some diagrams are very ubiquitous (e.g. illustrations and bar graphs) whereas other representations which are potentially appropriate for younger children (e.g. hierarchies) are relatively rarely used. We also query some of th...