Special Interest Group
The aim of the Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy (CAP) SIG is to encourage and support research and other scholarly activity in the inter-related areas of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy across the 4 nations of the UK and internationally. One of the aspirations of the SIG is to re-ignite curriculum studies as a broad field. Examples of such work include attention to the important inter-relationship between these three ‘message systems’, for example the growing influence of assessment on curricula internationally, and attempts by governments and their agencies to prescribe pedagogy, in addition to curriculum, and assessment. Further examples of the work that the SIG encourages are:
The intention is to hold seminars, workshops and other regular meetings in order to:
Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Singapore University of Social Sciences
Weipeng Yang, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore. He specialises in early childhood curriculum with interests in programme evaluation, policy, and cultural issues. He...
Principal Lecturer for Curriculum Studies at Sheffield Hallam University
Richard is a principal lecturer for curriculum studies and leads the knowledge in education research group in the Sheffield Institute of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)....
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Continue readingA special issue of the Curriculum Journal
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