This essay is a critique of the scientific and policy rationales for transnational
standardization. It analyzes two examples of policy export: early childhood standards in one …

Three decades ago, Michael Apple (1978) made the case that the over-specification of
curriculum through directive syllabi, packaged materials and instructional scripts has the …

This essay explores the nature of the curriculum content of liberal studies—a core school
subject in the new senior secondary curriculum in Hong Kong—with reference to the …

This is a volatile period for curriculum settlements in many nations, states and regions.
System curriculum documents–usually in the form of a formal syllabus, curriculum …

This article analyzes the notion of curriculum potential by revisiting the ideas of Miriam Ben‐
Peretz and Joseph Schwab. Invoking the German Didaktik tradition and by way of a …

Explicit instruction is a teaching model that demonstrates to students what to do and how to
do it. One purpose of ideology is to focus the who, what, when, where, and why of a …

Quality assurance is a major agenda in tertiary education. The casualisation of academic
work, especially in teaching, is also a quality assurance issue. Casual or sessional staff …

This chapter on curriculum policy guidelines is an outgrowth of our background paper on
curriculum guidelines (Connelly & Connelly, 2008), prepared at Allan Luke's request, for a …

摘要教育部推動的擴大高中職及五專免試入學實施方案, 在作法與理念上和澳洲與香港所執行的
學校本位評量有雷同之處. 兩者都是以學生為學習主體, 提供其適性與優質之教育機會; …

This case study using ethnographic tools was conducted in an Ontario transnational
education (TNE) program in China where Ontario secondary school curricula were …