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Hayden, Mary – Curriculum Journal, 2013
The present article focuses on the growing emphasis on international dimensions of the curriculum in the UK. Educators and policymakers increasingly grapple with the thorny issue of how best to prepare future generations for life in a world changing so rapidly that no-one is able to predict precisely what knowledge and skills will be relevant for…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Citizenship
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Peterson, Andrew; Bentley, Brendan – Curriculum Journal, 2017
Preparing students for informed and active citizenship is a core goal of education and schooling in Australia. The ways schools educate and prepare young Australians for citizenship involves a range of processes and initiatives central to the work of schools, including school ethos, mission, extracurricular activities and community-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Civics, Public Schools
Standish, Alex – Curriculum Journal, 2014
Global education began as a movement to reform education and society in the 1960s and 1970s, through the work of educationalists, NGOs and also intergovernmental organisations. The global approach seeks to break with a curriculum that is grounded in subject knowledge and national culture. Instead, it seeks to explore alternative rationales for…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Public Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Tan, Charlene – Curriculum Journal, 2013
Values education in Asian societies is commonly underpinned by an ideology of communitarianism that seeks to promote the needs and interests of "others" over the "self." An example of an Asian country that promotes communitarian values through its values education curriculum is Singapore. By reviewing the moral and citizenship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Culture, Confucianism, Social Values
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Cowan, Elaine M.; McMurtry, David C. – Curriculum Journal, 2009
Changes in society and government have increased concerns of low participation and involvement by people, especially the young, in the political process and decision-making. As a result, citizenship has become a focus of recent curriculum developments in many countries. In Scotland, "Values and Citizenship" has been made one of the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Implementation
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Haste, Helen – Curriculum Journal, 2009
This article addresses the competences needed in twenty-first-century life, especially in relation to civic participation, and the educational requirements to foster them in young people. New technologies are widely used by young people for informal social interaction, video game-playing and giving voice to their views. Incorporation of these…
Descriptors: Video Games, Citizenship Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction