This article provides an overview of research into the hidden curriculum. Following a consideration of functionalist, liberal and critical research studies, I focus in particular on recent insights which have arisen from postmodern thinking. In the light of postmodernism, I identify a personal perspective on how to study the hidden curriculum which moves beyond the established boundaries of dis...

The Status of Curriculum Planning in the Iranian Educational System A. R. Sharifi To assess the status of curriculum planning in the Iranian educational system, a sample of 35 elementary school curriculum experts, willing to cooperate, was given a questionnaire containing ten indices of quality for the elementary school curriculum, with a reliability of 0.81. The analysis of the colle...

this article is a short report of a research project carried out, upon the recommendation of the ministry of science, research and technology, by the department of librarianship and information science of meshed ferdowsi university between 2003-2004. the goal was to study and revise the current curriculum to bring it closer to the changing needs of the present society. the curricula of the u.s....

Recently, various integrated medical curricula, which can be defined as courses with subject matter classified by organ systems rather than according to departments such as surgery and internal medicine, are beginning to be introduced to bedside-learning in Japan. For example, in such an integrated medical curriculum, lectures in the course on neurological diseases would be given by a team that...

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen (Used by permission. All rights reserved. For more information on Alan Cohen's books and programs, see (www.alan...

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 curricu...

introduction: leadership and management are two expected features and competencies for general practitioners (gps). the purpose of this study was leadership and management curriculum planning for gps which was performed based on kern’s curriculum planning cycle. methods: this study was conducted in 2011-2012 in iran using an explanatory mixed-methods approach. it was conducted through an initia...

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 ...

â  â  â  pragmatic dimension of the contemporary language and principles of curriculum development â â â â â â â  dr. boulaares djemai * â  â  abstract â â â  textbooks have been very significant and valuable for our precedents because education is very significant and through it, everybody can achieve fulfillment. knowledge and its application can be achieved through the person’s interaction...