Globalized curriculum or global approach to curriculum reform in mathematics education

Curriculum Materials in Mathematics Education Reform: A Framework for Examining Teachers’ Curriculum Development

This paper presents a model of teachers’ construction of mathematics curriculum in the classroom or their curriculum development activities. The model emerged through a qualitative study of two experienced, elementary teachers during their first year of using a commercially published, reform-oriented textbook that had been adopted by their district (Remillard 1996). The aim of the study was to ...

Medical Education and Curriculum Reform:

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate criteria by which the principles of curriculum reform can be judged. To this end, the paper presents an overview of standard critiques of medical education and examines the ways medical curriculum reforms have responded to these critiques. The paper then sets out our assessment of these curriculum reforms along three parameters: pedagogy, educational co...

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

Pain education for physiotherapists: is it time for curriculum reform?

Pain is the most common reason that people seek physiotherapy care. Despite major advances in our understanding of pain in the past 40 years, the burden of pain worldwide remains enormous, whether gauged in humanitarian, health care, or financial terms (National Pain Strategy 2010). Physiotherapists have an ethical imperative as health professionals to have an accurate understanding of the huma...

Curriculum planning, development and reform for primary and secondary education

The Government of Bangladesh recognizes that education is an important prerequisite for ensuring sustainable development. The country’s constitution obligates the State to provide basic education to citizens and eradicate illiteracy within a given time frame. As a signatory to the World Conference on Education For All (Jomtien, Thailand, 1990); World Conference on Children’s Rights (New York, 1...