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A Case for a Standard Elementary Math Education in Ancient Rome

The Owl, 2020
Although overshadowed in the ancient Roman sources by the importance given to grammar and literature in a child’s school curriculum, secondary instructors of rhetoric and philosophy required their pupils to have a certain level of numerical familiarity ...
Luis Sanchez
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One hundred years of teaching, research, and innovation in chemical engineering at the Faculty of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): Birthplace and enduring leadership of the discipline in Mexico

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
The teaching of chemical engineering in Mexico started in 1925 at the Faculty of Chemistry (FQ) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Academic institutions, research centres, chemical companies, technological developments, highly trained personnel, and scientific contributions are part of the legacy from FQ‐UNAM.
Patricia Pérez‐Salinas, Alberto Rosas‐Aburto, Martín G. Hernández‐Luna, Aida Gutiérrez‐Alejandre, Eduardo Vivaldo‐Lima   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mind the Gaps! Legitimacy and Expectation Misalignments in Sustainability Disclosure: Case Evidence From a Public Forestry Sector Organization

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability disclosure by public sector organizations remains under‐examined, particularly in the forestry and natural resources sector, where organizations combine strong public accountability obligations with operations in environmentally sensitive ecosystems.
Dimitra Panori, Konstantinos G. Papaspyropoulos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internationalising the teacher education curriculum: An analysis of syllabi and student experiences

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Internationalisation has increasingly become a key dimension of quality in initial teacher education (ITE) programmes. Although it is recognised as a means to strengthen future teachers' competencies and expand their professional knowledge, it remains underdeveloped in practice.
Nafsika Alexiadou, Mai Trang Vu
wiley   +1 more source

Educating agents of change: Investigating curricula to foster sustainability competencies in university

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study critically evaluates the implementation of sustainability competencies in the university‐wide curriculum reform at a Nordic research‐intensive multidisciplinary university. The focus is on assessing how sustainability competencies—especially the newly introduced systems thinking, strategic thinking and futures thinking—are ...
I. Södervik, T. Tuononen, R. Ratvio, T. Laisi, J. Pietikäinen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally, Carmel O. Sullivan, Karin Bacon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived importance and didactic difficulty of chemistry education: Insights from Czech teachers

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This empirical study examines how chemistry teachers in lower and upper secondary schools in the Czech Republic evaluate the content of the chemistry curriculum, focussing on its perceived importance and didactic difficulty. Based on a quantitative survey (N = 146), the study provides insight into the pedagogical content knowledge of ...
Jitka Lorenzová, Blanka Jirkovská, Martin Čapek Adamec, Jan Havlík, Petr Holzhauser, Daniela Nováková, Karel Němejc   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Curriculum alignment with international graduate attribute standards in engineering education: The CPUT experience

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents a qualitative case study of how the Mechanical Engineering Diploma programme at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) systematically aligned its curriculum with both national and international graduate attribute (GA) standards.
Ali Rugbani, Simphiwe Nqabisa
wiley   +1 more source

Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol, Elizaveta Lyssova‐Golomzina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing interdisciplinary understanding: Disciplinary crossroads in the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Assessing interdisciplinary learning within school curricula remains a persistent challenge in educational research. Difficulties in articulating shared assessment criteria, alongside differing disciplinary and pedagogical perspectives, have contributed to ongoing uncertainty around how interdisciplinary learning should be evaluated.
Hermione Paddle
wiley   +1 more source