The Curriculum Design Coherence Model
This presentation by Elizabeth Rata introduces the Curriculum Design Coherence Model (CDC Model) being trialled in the Knowledge-Rich School Project in New Zealand and England. She describes the...
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Curriculum Design for Deep learning
In this presentation Dr Graham McPhail discusses some recent research in the area of curriculum design using a model developed at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand The model aims...
Who is Australian? Textbooks continue to exclude Black, Indigenous and people of colour from Australianness
Both the explicit and implicit messages that schoolchildren receive from their textbooks matter. My research focuses on race and national belonging and how these have changed from the 1950s to the...
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National curriculum policy in Norway and Brazil
In an article recently published in the Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, we compared how national curriculum policy, in Norway and Brazil, adopted the global logic of...
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Rethinking class size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning
The enduring argument over class size is one of the most contested in education. The argument is between many teachers and practitioners who feel that class size makes a big difference to teaching...
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Entanglements of writing and matter: Towards less human-centred practices
Over the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...
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Curriculum integration can support the development of powerful knowledge in education
On 20th March 2015, an article published by the Independent (Garner, 2015) claimed that Finnish schools had scrapped school subjects and replaced them with topics. Ever since then Finland has been...
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Making the case for integrating sustainable development in the university language classroom
Many teachers and researchers reading this may be asking themselves: what is sustainable development (SD) and why should I care about it? Here I offer insights on the following three areas: what...
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Flipping the course curriculum: Digital engagement for active learning
Digital engagement has steadily become an important part of an educator’s pedagogic repertoire since universities started offering courses online in the early 2000s. In light of the Covid-19...
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Values first, goals second
I have a certain disquiet about the way we in higher education so often relate success and failure to the attainment or otherwise of goals. This focus on goals is present at all levels of...
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Taking a year out? The ambitious teleology of higher education for cultivating a self-aware society
In the much-quoted Heraclitean aphorism, ‘the road up and down is one and the same’ (see for example Russell, 2004, p. 51), the pre-Socratic philosopher introduces a radical relativism and...
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Empathy and engagement from a distance: Three learning delivery options in an uncharted terrain
My understanding of the uncharted terrain that ensued from January 2020 in China and March 2020 the world over is that human in-person mobility and interaction outside homes has been completely...
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