A Curriculum for Excellence outlines a curriculum for young people in Scotland from age 3 to 18. In the report, endorsed wholly by Scottish ministers, much is made of the underpinning values of the proposed curriculum. However, the absence of any consultation period has meant that such values and the report itself have not been subject to systematic debate by parliament, public, or the educatio...

Canadian family medicine training is highly praised worldwide, but more recently it has been affected by many external pressures. Issues such as training efficiency, social accountability, and a global move toward competency-based education suggest it is time for curriculum renewal. In order to respond to these challenges, the Working Group on Postgraduate Curriculum Review of the College of Fa...

In Japan, the ‘course of study,’ namely the course objectives, approach and content of the school curriculum, is determined by the standard national curriculum set by the Ministry of Education. It is legally compulsory for schools to abide by the national curriculum standard, so that uniformity and standardization of the school curriculum may be attained throughout the country. The course of st...

We present a case study of a successful response to outsourcing, and IS job and enrollment declines through an IS curriculum redevelopment in a business school. First, we examine literature on outsourcing/offshoring phenomenon and on IS curricular redesign. A conceptual framework is presented that is useful in understanding the role of global collaborative group projects for learning about outs...

In the face of what has been characterised as a 'crisis' in curriculum – an apparent decline of some aspects of curriculum studies combined with the emergence of new types of national curriculum which downgrade knowledge – some writers have been arguing for the use of realist theory to address these issues. This paper offers a contribution to this debate, drawing upon critical realism, and espe...

When the original TIMSS study was first released in 1997 preceding it was the report of the curriculum component. That report stressed the importance of curricular differences among countries in interpreting the cross national differences in achievement. One of the original findings achieved significant importance for possibly understanding the relatively poor performance of US students. That f...

This study investigated mathematics learning at a suburban United States high school that simultaneously adopted a semestered (4 x 4) block schedule and the Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP), a curriculum designed to implement the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards. Previous research has often found that at sites where a block schedule was adopted without changes t...

Curriculum integration has been one of the trends in Education, so that the teaching makes sense to students, whose reasoning is guided by practical perception of knowledge in construction. The National Curriculum Guidelines of Computing Courses, under homologation, addresses this integration, including aspects related to human-computer interaction (HCI). In this sense, this paper presents a pi...

Grounded in the dimensional model of national culture, the purpose of this literature review was to investigate (a) the cultural impact of globalization on online instruction (in particular Eastern and Western beliefs and values), (b) the knowledge needed by curriculum developers (i.e., instructional designers and online instructors) to create multicultural appropriate content, (c) the identifi...

[NOTE: The current English National Curriculum in Mathematics [1] has recently been reviewed. The changes are awaiting government approval. The draft proposals [2] (which are quite detailed) are rather different in form from the current curriculum (which is very vague). My information is that the final version will be very close to the draft proposals, so any reference to "the recently revised"...