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Volume 4, Issue 8 (2-2017)
Abstract
The conceptions, practices and efforts of some education systems in ten countries and four continents of the world, in area of national curriculum, have been reviewed and analyzed in this inquiry to represent a brief look of their experiences and obtain some guidelines for delineating and developing national curriculum. The methodology in this inquiry has been descriptive and analytical research with emphasis on the qualitative dimension of inquiry. The selection of educational systems as inquiry sample has been purposeful. Data gathering from the countries has been done through the six components of the inquiry which are the main criteria in reviewing, assessing and delineating national curriculum practices and conceptions in these education systems. They are as below: 1- goals and other curriculum main elements; 2- conceptions and theorization; 3- necessities, preconditions and foregrounds; 4-structural and implementation characteristics; 5- attention to school based curriculum development; and 6-interest to the field of curriculum orientations.
Soheila Gholamazad, Dr Zahra Gooya, Dr Alireza Kiamanesh,
Volume 9, Issue 18 (10-2021)
Abstract
This study is to explain the criteria and indicators of the ideal form of school mathematics curriculum in Iran. For this purpose, the national documents of the education system in Iran and related research findings to school mathematics curriculum were examined. The Akker’s ten-component model for the curriculum was adapted as the framework for this study. In order to ensure the balance and effectiveness of the curriculum, in this framework, each of the components address a specific question. By answering them, criteria for the components of the school mathematics curriculum were presented. The research method of the study was document analysis and qualitative content analysis in the form of inferential. To validate the presented criteria, a number of mathematics educators and curriculum specialists participated in this study. Finally, for each of the components introduced in the framework, the criteria and indicators of the ideal form of mathematics curriculum were determined.
