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Direct linkBørhaug, Kjetil – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
Current Norwegian curricular guidelines oblige schools to educate citizens with a critical perspective on society. From a discourse theoretical perspective, this obligation implies that various school subjects, and in particular social studies, offer discourses on social issues that allow for different points of view and critical evaluation.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Social Studies
Pepin, Birgit – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
In this article the concept of the Didactic Contract is used to investigate student "transition" from upper secondary into university mathematics education. The findings are anchored in data from the TransMaths project, more particularly the case of an ethnic minority student's journey from his school to a university mathematics course…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, College Mathematics, Student Adjustment, Minority Group Students
Mahlangu, Vimbi P. – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
This article investigates the activities of teacher unions in some Gauteng secondary schools in South Africa. The methods used in collecting data were questionnaires, interviews and a literature study of appropriate educational and labour law journals, books and newspapers. An interpretive paradigm was used in analysing the data. In this article,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Unions, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
Zavale, Nelson Casimiro – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
In this article, the author seeks to examine the effects of neoliberalism on curricula in Mozambique. Despite the fact that the introduction of neoliberal policies in Mozambique has affected the whole system of education, the focus in this article is only on curriculum reforms in secondary and technical/vocational education. The description and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Ideology, Curriculum Research, Curriculum Development
Cottey, Alan – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
This article addresses the difference between knowledge-inquiry and wisdom-inquiry in nuclear physics education. In the spirit of an earlier study of 57 senior-level textbooks for first-degree physics students, this work focuses here on a remarkable use of literary quotations in one such book. "Particles and Nuclei: an introduction to the physical…
Descriptors: Nuclear Physics, Role, Textbooks, Writing (Composition)
Pinto, Laura; Boler, Megan; Norris, Trevor – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
This article examines how the public discourse of print news media defines and shapes the representation of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) based on coverage in three primary newspapers between 1998 and 2004. The data were analysed using qualitative and quantitative measures to identify types of coverage, themes, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Newspapers, Tests, Literacy
