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Dempster, Edith R. – Science & Education, 2020
The paper reports a study that used a Bernsteinian analysis in order to investigate the association between higher primary science curriculum and social equity in four contrasting socioeconomic contexts: British Columbia (Canada), Singapore, South Africa and Kenya. The official science curriculum of each jurisdiction was analysed in terms of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Socioeconomic Influences, Context Effect, Correlation
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Blyth, Carmen; Meiring, Rouxnette – Teacher Development, 2018
As we enter the sixth great mass extinction event, an event that points to humanity's exploitative attitude towards nature, posthumanist ethics offers a different way of engaging with the world, a way which has clear and extensive implications for the way environmental education is taught in South African schools. However, given the official…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Ethics
Wallace, Susan – Oxford University Press, 2015
Education is of relevance to everyone but it involves a specialized vocabulary and terminology which may be opaque or unfamiliar to those new to the field. This UK-focused Dictionary of Education provides clear and concise definitions for over 1,100 terms, from A* to zero tolerance, that anyone studying education or working in the field is likely…
Descriptors: Education, Dictionaries, Definitions, Vocabulary