BACKGROUND In 2007, our healthcare system established a clinical fellowship program in Pathology Informatics. In 2010 a core didactic course was implemented to supplement the fellowship research and operational rotations. In 2011, the course was enhanced by a formal, structured core curriculum and reading list. We present and discuss our rationale and development process for the Core Curriculum...

Taylor and Francis Ltd CUS123168.sgm 10.1080/00220270500231850 Journal of Curri ulum Studies 0 11-0272 (p i t)/1366-5839 (online) Original Article 2 05 & Francis Group Ltd 37 000 5 anTe wel F culty Education and PsychologyVrije UniversityVan der Boechorststraat 1Amsterdam1081 BTThe [email protected] This paper examines curriculum differentiation (i.e. streaming or ability-grouping)....

The ChERT project is focusing on developing an embedded system curriculum with the following innovative features: (a) an interdisciplinary curriculum and (b) integration of research results into teaching. The design of embedded systems requires knowledge from many different disciplines. For this purpose, we have designed a sequence of interdisciplinary courses for imparting embedded systems des...

Since 1996 the authors have had great success combining software engineering research and software engineering education. This effort introduces new research and experimental areas into the curriculum along with the means to evolve and refine current practices. The curriculum itself becomes a valuable research area with direct applications to “real-world” practice. The approach in particular tr...

The Journal of Transcultural Nursing, the TCNS, and SAGE have collaborated to publish a new concept in journals publishing, a Core Curriculum for Transcultural Nursing and Health Care. The Core Curriculum is the culmination of many years of research, drawing from the fields of social and behavioral science, philosophy, and nursing to establish a core of knowledge that supports transcultural nur...

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 ...

The purpose of the paper is to discuss the future development of the business-to-business marketing curriculum. The conventional method of sub-dividing the overall marketing curriculum is appraised, and the legitimacy of business-to-business marketing as a component of the curriculum is assessed. Broad debates on business and marketing education, concerning managerial relevance and the place of...

We report on the initial field tests of Learning Physical Science (LEPS), a new curriculum adapted from Physical Science and Everyday Thinking (PSET). PSET is an inquiry-based, hands-on, physical science curriculum that includes an explicit focus on nature of science and nature of learning. PSET was developed for small enrollment discussion/lab settings. The Learning Physical Science (LEPS) cur...