The creation of a curriculum blueprint appropriate to the development of a professional nurse who is practice-ready for the current and future context of health service delivery must take account of the extant context as well as an unpredictable and sometimes ambiguous future. The curriculum renewal process itself ought to challenge existing long held ideals, practices, and sacred cows within t...

Fifteen years of undergraduate medical education curriculum reform at Saga Medical School was evaluated by measuring medical students' communication and interpersonal skills with a patient satisfaction questionnaire developed by the American Board of Internal Medicine. A multiphase cross-sectional study was conducted at the General Medicine Clinic of Saga Medical School Hospital in phase I (199...

Introduction This paper is about developing new analytical tools for research in the field of curriculum studies. It is an exploration of the representation of curriculum in multimodal texts and how to deal with this relatively new phenomenon in a field that has always relied on monomodal print-based textual formats. It draws on research about the postmodern condition, visual culture, semiotics...

As part of our effort to design curriculum materials, we report on a systematic research method for improving materials based upon learning goals, and adaptability and usability. Our work is with an ongoing urban systemic initiative of a large public school district to reform science and mathematics education, and our science curriculum materials are consistent with constructivist ideas and add...

Integrative curriculum design promises much for middle level teachers who wish to develop classroom programmes that will encourage early adolescents to actively engage in their learning (Beane 1990, 1997). Beane’s model is highly responsive to the educational and developmental needs of young people. In contrast, multidisciplinary curriculum design (Jacobs 1989) may result in significant but lar...

iran’s nineteenth century is to be regarded as the age of major reforms including educational reform. in that century, iran’s defeat by russian made the european presence in iran possible; europeans intended to reform iranian educational system. these powerful countries supported the missionary activities in iran and in particular backed the development of minorities’ educational system. under ...