An officially endorsed national curriculum: institutional boundaries and ideational concerns

An institutional approach to cross-national distance

Received: 5 March 2009 Revised: 7 March 2010 Accepted: 10 March 2010 Online publication date: 1 July 2010 Abstract Cross-national distance is a key concept in the field of management. Previous research has conceptualized and measured cross-national differences mostly in terms of dyadic cultural distance, and has used the Euclidean approach to measuring it. In contrast, our goal is to disaggrega...

Upgraded curriculum? An analysis of knowledge boundaries in teaching under the Swedish subject- based curriculum

Development of an assessment for ideational praxis.

OBJECTIVE This study developed an assessment of ideational praxis, examined its psychometric properties, and analyzed age and gender trends in children who were typically developing. METHOD Part 1 developed items and scoring criteria of the Test of Ideational Praxis (TIP) and examined interrater reliability and internal consistency. Part 2 studied performance of 80 typically developing childr...

National Curriculum: What Do International Experiences Say?

The conceptions, practices and efforts of some education systems in ten countries and four continents of the world, in area of national curriculum, have been reviewed and analyzed in this inquiry to represent a brief look of their experiences and obtain some guidelines for delineating and developing national curriculum. The methodology in this inquiry has been descriptive and analytical researc...

Physical education and the national curriculum.

In August 1991 the Department of Education and Science and the Welsh Office published their proposals for attainment targets and programmes of study in physical education (PE) for all children of compulsory school age (5-16 years) in maintained schools in England and Wales.' These were devised with the help of a working group that also offered proposals for assessment arrangements, though it is...