Culture Sensitive and Child Friendly Curriculum Framework for Tribal School Education

The Convergence of Science and Culture: Developing a Framework for Diabetes Education in Tribal Communities

In an unprecedented effort to address the epidemic of diabetes in tribal communities, the Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools project brought together a group of individuals from eight tribal colleges and three federal agencies to develop a diabetes prevention curriculum for American Indian and Alaska Native school children. The curriculum incorporates Western and Native science with culturall...

Informatics Curriculum Framework 2000 for Higher Education

Informatics is a relatively new discipline, but is nowadays of key importance in all economic processes. Many professionals need development of different informatics backgrounds. The Informatics Curriculum Framework 2000 (ICF-2000) [3] has been designed to cope with a large diversity of demand for informatics education in a controlled way. It offers 8 different curriculum specifications that fi...

A curriculum framework for implementing information technology in school education to foster information literacy

A literature review of the development of the information technology (IT) curriculum in recent decades in Hong Kong reveals that the aim of the curriculum has shifted from Computer Studies to the development of information literacy (IL). Based on a survey of all schools in Hong Kong and in response to the demand for IL in society, a curriculum framework is proposed that fosters the IL of studen...

Developing a National Framework for a Middle School Agricultural Education Curriculum

In 1985 over 22 percent of all secondary agricultural education instructors taught one or more junior high/middle school courses in agriculture (Phipps & Osborne, 1988). This effort has occurred and will continue in middle grade agricultural education programs in an effort to provide early exposure to the world of agriculture and to increase self understanding in the preparation for careers. It...

[Children's culture in child education].