To illuminate the cross-national similarities and differences in ways of teaching multiplication of fractions and division of fractions, this study compared the lessons on fractions in Korean mathematics textbooks and accompanying teacher’s manuals with the corresponding lessons on fractions in one U.S. reform mathematics textbook series and accompanying teachers’ manuals [Everyday Mathematics]...

308 Since the 1950s, the Korean educational system had adopted the policy of teaching subject matter in separate lessons based on various subjects. This approach has been heavily criticized, mainly for three reasons: 1) knowledge is constantly accumulating and fundamentally changing, 2) there is a discrepancy between the learners’ holistic perceptions of the world and the artificial fragmentati...

BACKGROUND According to the updated concept of oral microbiology, the School of Stomatology, Wuhan University, has carried out oral microbiology teaching reforms during the last 5 years. There was no lab curriculum before 2009 except for a theory course of oral microbiology. The school has implemented an innovative curriculum with oral medicine characteristics to strengthen understanding of kno...

Dental education has undergone significant curriculum reform in response to the 1995 Institute of Medicine report Dental Education at the Crossroads and the series of white papers from the American Dental Education Association Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (ADEA CCI) first published in the Journal of Dental Education and subsequently collected in a volume titled Beyond...

The continuing debate on the relevance and imposition of `Western theories' for explaining educational policy in the Third World is fascinating on a rhetorical level but lacking in the actual `testing' of such theories in a crossnational context. Responding to the general debate, and to a particular paper by Hans Weiler included in this issue of the Oxford Review of Education, on curriculum ref...