This paper provided not only a solid grounding in the subject, but also covered the latest trends and issues affecting the field. The strengths, weaknesses and controversies around major concepts in curriculum, including, curriculum planning and development, curriculum management, teaching perspectives, collaborative involvement in curriculum, curriculum ideology.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The need for change in medical curricula is increasing, due partially to tougher curriculum and evaluation standards. Participants in our academic medicine fellowship learn to develop curricula, but not all are successful at fully implementing them. This study looked for facilitators of and barriers to curriculum implementation by individual fellows. A literature revie...

Continuing education curriculum construction is the key work to complete the teachers’ continuing education system, it is also an important part of the teachers’ specialization. This study aims to master the main problems of the current primary and secondary school teachers’ continuing education curriculum construction and put forward the corresponding improvement countermeasures. Research in Y...

Since the emergence of the cultural turn in translation studies, external factors affecting translation have re- ceived attention in this field. Macro factors such as culture, politics in target contexts, history, ideological manipulation, and translators’ institutional rules have become the concern of translation studies. Consider- ing these factors, the current...

1.0 Introduction The multiple educational evaluation models and definitions developed by evaluation theorists reflect the diversity of ideas and approaches towards educational evaluation. The diverse meanings and definitions of the evaluation concept includes viewing evaluation as an assessment of the worth or merit of some educational objects (Stufflebeam, 2000a, 2000b; Trochim, 2006); assessm...

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine the priority index each PILO and describe perspective UST-CRS PT Alumni towards new curriculum. Methods: This descriptive quantitative, cross sectional involved obtaining regarding PILOs curriculum through a selfmade questionnaire that underwent content validity. Qualitative questions were also included. Descriptive statistics used rank P...

The increased level of accountability in higher education has prompted many computer-related programs to seek accreditation. As accrediting agencies continue to define and refine exactly what these degrees should entail, institutions struggle with the decisions of aligning their curriculum with a dynamic set of standards set by an outside agency, focusing on the needs identified by their own as...

It is known that foreign language teaching has become an increasingly important element with the globalizing world. While some countries have reached a higher level in teaching, cannot reach of success they want. Understanding quality possible by knowing how shape their education systems. In this study, secondary school systems Germany and Turkey were examined comparatively. doing so, policy, l...

Different Interpretations of a National Curriculum: A Reflection on the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ratified Curriculum N. Salsabili, Ph.D. Curriculum planning is a major task in any national educational system as it involves not only educational concerns, but socio-political and cultural issues as well. Given the variety of perspectives on each of these dimensions, it would be natural...