Curriculum materials are a crucial tool with which teachers engage in teaching practice. For preservice teachers to learn to use science curriculum materials in productive ways, they must develop a conception of themselves as elementary teachers in which the use of science curriculum materials is a valued dimension of science-teaching practice. We define those dimensions of teachers’ profession...

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...

This paper reviews and examines causes behind the challenges towards achieving national integration in Nigeria. Today the country is in the grip of various destructive forces that are deteriorating the unity among its citizens such as Boko Haram and ethno-religious crises. This paperaims to examine some of the issues bedeviling Nigerian education and reviews its curriculum content and practices...

We assess all 4 of our major learning objectives/outcomes every year according to the assessment plan established in addition to assessing our mission, philosophy, goals, curriculum plan, students (admission requirements, progress, successful retention, success on the national licensure examination, outcomes), faculty, and clinical faculty. We established our assessment plan with the developmen...

Whilst the link between access, quality of schooling and gender equality in promotion Education for All is vital, the problematic nature of this agenda for the curriculum in developing countries is not sufficiently recognized. Previous sociological research indicates the contradictions between the social reproductive elements and the egalitarian potential of a ‘globalised curriculum’ especially...

A number of national reports, including Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action, have called for drastic changes in how undergraduate biology is taught. To that end, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has developed new Curriculum Guidelines for undergraduate microbiology that outline a comprehensive curriculum for any undergraduate introductory microbiolo...

This paper describes a multidisciplinary program of research and curriculum development in Information-Centric Systems Engineering currently underway at the Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park. This work is supported by a significant grant from the National Science Foundation and industrial funds from US industry. After motivating the need for an information-cen...

This paper summarises a report (Brown, Jones & Taylor, 2003) to the UK Qualifications and Curriculum Authority of the work of one geometry group. The group was charged with developing and reporting on teaching ideas that focus on the development of geometrical reasoning at the secondary school level. The group was encouraged to explore what is possible both within and beyond the current require...

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]...