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 ...

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 curricul...

The unique contribution of international studies allows an examination of educational structure, curriculum, and policy frameworks from various countries and how these are related to cross national achievement differences. Measures of both the intended curriculum (derived from country standards and textbooks) and the implemented curriculum (derived from teacher questionnaires) were collected in...

Drawing on a number of recent research studies, this article evaluates the process of implementation of a more student-centred task-oriented approach to English language teaching in Hong Kong primary schools. The reform, essentially a top-down system-level initiative strongly influenced by curriculum developments in the UK and Australia, called for sweeping changes to existing learning and teac...

OBJECTIVES To explore a pharmacy school curriculum for opportunities for student engagement and to determine how these might shape student identity as pharmacists. METHODS The learning aims and objectives and methods of assessment from the curriculum of a bachelor of pharmacy (BPharm) program were collected and a concept map was generated. The concept map was interpreted using Barnett and Coa...

Curriculum Change in South Africa Since 1994 The development of a national curriculum is a major challenge for any nation, and when a whole country depends on it to transform society in one broad stroke, it imposes tremendous expectations on such a curriculum. South Africa’s democratic government has inherited a divided and unequal system of education and must recognise that apartheid is not th...