The complex mechanisms in corporate education, where cognitive operations of individual learning intertwine with social processes of an organisational context, demand an extended theory of curriculum design that seeks to explain the existing successes and failures of training systems. The author advocates integrated design procedures that combine a systematic and relational approach. Empirical ...

INTRODUCTION Despite the importance of curriculum analysis for internal refinement of a programme, the approach for such a step in under-described in the literature. This article describes the analysis of the medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Gezira (FMUG). This analysis is crucial in the era of innovative medical education since introducing new curricula and curricul...

Teachers play a pivotal role in implementing educational innovations and realising curriculum change. Consequently, their perceptions of innovations and curricula content are of crucial importance. In this study, teachers’ perceptions of the new ICT curriculum in Flanders are examined. This curriculum reflects Flemish society’s underlying vision of the role of technology and ICT in teaching and...

Consideration of variation has been identified as one of the fundamental types of statistical thinking, and recent research into the understanding of variation highlights its growing importance. Curriculum needs to reflect this trend. This chapter proposes a model for an integrated approach to curriculum development where consideration of variation is used as the linking thread. The application...

Six education strategies have been identified relating to the curriculum in a medical school. Each issue can be represented as a spectrum or continuum: student-centred/teacher-centred, problem-based/information-gathering, integrated/discipline-based, community-based/hospital-based, elective/uniform and systematic/apprenticeship-based. The factors supporting a more towards each end of the contin...