The research summarised in this paper examines the context, development and consequent adaptation and use of an online curriculum database and search facility on a school’s intranet. The study investigated both the process of development of the system and teacher and organizational responses to it. This paper will cover the latter aspect, the perceptions and reactions of staff before, during an...

The creation of a curriculum blueprint appropriate to the development of a professional nurse who is practice-ready for the current and future context of health service delivery must take account of the extant context as well as an unpredictable and sometimes ambiguous future. The curriculum renewal process itself ought to challenge existing long held ideals, practices, and sacred cows within t...

Professionalism is one of the core competencies to be taught and evaluated during residency. A review of the literature suggests that professionalism is not completely understood or practiced. The teaching of professionalism has been incorporated into the educational programs for residents. However, residents learn from two curriculums: the stated curriculum and a hidden curriculum. The hidden ...

This paper presents a model of teachers’ construction of mathematics curriculum in the classroom or their curriculum development activities. The model emerged through a qualitative study of two experienced, elementary teachers during their first year of using a commercially published, reform-oriented textbook that had been adopted by their district (Remillard 1996). The aim of the study was to ...

BACKGROUND The implementation of duty-hour restrictions and a heightened awareness of patient safety has changed resident education and training. A new focus has been placed on high-yield training programs and simulation training has naturally grown to fill this need. METHODS This article discusses the development of a training framework, knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and the design of a ...

Major efforts have been pursued to improve palliative care education for physicians at all levels of their training. Such changes include the incorporation of palliative care curriculum and guidelines, an established process for competency-based evaluation and certification, faculty development, innovative educational experiences, the improvement of textbooks, and the establishment of accredite...

A lot of curricula in information systems, also at master level, exists today. However, the strong need in new approaches and new curricula still exists, especially, in European area. The paper discusses the modern curriculum in information systems at master level that is currently under development in the Socrates/Erasmus project MOCURIS. The curriculum is oriented to the students of engineeri...

The IS discipline identity discourse has traditionally been focused on the IS research. With considerable effort devoted to the IS curriculum development, it has not been seriously considered in the discussions on the IS identity. Here we argue that IS students and their recruiters, along with IS faculty, are key internal stakeholders of the IS discipline. As such they are engaged in the proces...