Teachers' Adaptability to General Curriculum Reform

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 ...

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 ...

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

Identifying Patterns in Teachers’ Use of a Reform-Based Elementary Mathematics Curriculum

The goal of this paper is to identify significant patterns of curriculum use among teachers using a reform-based elementary mathematics curriculum. Towards this end, we introduce the curriculum strategy framework as a way to characterize teachers’ interactions with reform-based materials. The framework focuses on three key interpretive activities: reading, evaluating, and adapting curriculum ma...

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...