________________________________________________________________________ Sergei Abramovich is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education and Professional Studies at the State University of New York at Potsdam, NY. Peter Brouwer is a Professor in the Department of Secondary Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies at the State Univ...

The Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine, University of Technology Dresden, Germany, was founded in 1993 after the reunification of Germany. In 1999, a reform process of medical education was started together with Harvard Medical International. The traditional teacher and discipline-centred curriculum was replaced by a student-centred, interdisciplinary and integrative curriculum which has bee...

This study describes errors and misconceptions of pre-service primary teachers, at course entry, across the mathematics curriculum. A Rasch analysis of a multiple-choice mathematics test uncovered patterns of errors in a cohort of 426 students at the beginning of their teacher education course. These errors were of varying sophistication. A map of an individual’s errors is also presented and we...

Factors relating to curriculum use in general education have been studied in considerable depth, yet little research has been conducted on what factors impact the enactment of curriculum in special education. This study specifically studied the enactment of a functional curriculum in two rural, self-contained, cross-categorical programs. The data revealed that it was the intersection and union ...

The focus on information technology in education has shifted towards curriculum integration. Consequently teacher education programs need to prepare graduates for teaching with IT. Graduates should possess both skills in the use of IT and belief in their capacity to integrate IT into teaching. Decisions about course design might be informed by a measure that is directly influenced by course cha...

This article specifies the place of the Hippocratic Oath in the programme of bioethical education on graduate schools where future medical and healthcare workers are being educated. The presented conceptualization of contents and described methodology of work show how the curriculum contents, dominated by historical facts, are being actualized by the use of knowledge students have acquired earl...

speaking of curriculum, very often we think of some exact, preplanned curricula determined for schools in advance. however in the new approach called emergent curriculum, all the beneficiaries including students, teachers, parents , society and all of whom are considered protagonists play some role in curriculum decision making and formation of learning. in emergent curriculum inspired by reggi...

In an attempt to enact equitable practices in U.S. public schools, many critical multicultural and anti-racist theorists, researchers, and practitioners strongly suggest that teacher educators move beyond diversity approaches to multicultural education in their teacher preparation programs to address the more uncomfortable issues of power and equity—namely, racism (Banks & McGee-Banks, 2006; Le...

many medical universitiesaround the world have donestunning changes in the recent years.some of these changes have been performed with the support of international organizations.they changed the traditionaltrainingprograms based on teacher- centered learning and disciplined approach to the educational course based on community needs responsivity and student-centered learning. this process is ai...