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Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska; Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The aim of the study was to analyze the narratives of the Solidarity movement in upper-secondary level history textbooks, published between 1991 and 2018. Quantitative methods were used to measure different categories of historical figures in terms of their frequency and textual space, as well as any changes in representation over time. To explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, History
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Morrison, Marlene – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2010
How do researchers and practitioners understand and interrogate education reform when it is heralded as the solution to many problems, not all of which are educational? As importantly, how can applied educational researchers delve "beneath the skin" of "given" problems to solve or report, and suggest a range of explanations? In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Leaders, Educational Administration
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Morgan, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
This article focuses on Enquiring Minds, a three-year curriculum development project funded by Microsoft as part of its Partners in Learning programme and run by Futurelab. The article suggests that the project is best understood as an example of a new type of "curriculum entrepreneurialism" that is impatient with the traditional…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Partnerships in Education, School Culture, Political Socialization
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Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng; Fong, Yiu-Chak – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
This paper explores the construction of local and national identities among secondary school students in post-colonial Hong Kong. As a Chinese society that has undergone a prolonged period of British colonial rule, the reunification of capitalist Hong Kong with the motherland under socialism in 1997 has set the context for a negotiation of…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
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Doolan, Karin; Domazet, Mladen – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
The article draws on an analysis exploring how the content and aims of secondary school political education have been framed in official Croatian policy documents following the country's war for independence, with particular focus on the underlying conception of citizenship promoted in such a post-conflict setting. The article also addresses how…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Textbook Standards, Political Socialization, Politics of Education
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Fairbrother, Gregory P. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2004
This article examines the reflection of national goals and ideologies in the civic education curricula of Mainland China and Taiwan. A comparison of junior secondary school textbooks from the 1950s and the 1990s shows how the curriculum embodies the states' changing national priorities and justificatory ideologies. Specifically, in the early…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy