Changing Times: Problematising Social Science Curriculum Implementation

The Changing Medical Curriculum

Curriculum Implementation and Reform: Teachers’ Views About Kuwait’s New Science Curriculum

The MoE (Ministry of Education) in the state of Kuwait is starting to reform the science curriculum in all school academic stages: primary (1−5) grades, intermediate (6−9) grades, and secondary (10−12) grades. The purpose of this study was to explore the opinions of science teachers about Kuwait’s new sixth and seventh grade science curriculum, which was implemented in 2008. This study focused ...

Confronting Statistical Literacy in the Undergraduate Social Science Curriculum

The American Sociological Association (ASA) has identified scientific literacy (i.e., statistical literacy) as a key curricular goal that needs to pervade the sociology major (Howery and Rodriguez 2006). Research Methods is the core course that addresses statistical literacy, but unfortunately many students possess significant quantitative skill gaps, often accompanied by significant anxieties ...

Changing times and Paradigms

Colleagues at a large public university I recently visited are doing some excellent research on first-year engineering students—what attracted them to engineering, how they view engineering as a curriculum and career, how they feel about their first-year courses (it isn’t pretty!), their confidence levels before and after those courses, and why the ones who drop out do so. I sat in on one of th...

Asia: Changing Times and Changing Problems

disease rates), and other important factors (e.g., broad changes in regulatory approaches, improvements in control technology) will influence the extent to which exposure to air pollution affects the health of the Asian population over the next several decades. Because the effects on air quality of recent, rapid development are clearly apparent in many of Asia's cities and industrial areas, gov...