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Kennedy, Kerry J.; Chan, Jacqueline Kin-sang; Fok, Ping Kwan – London Review of Education, 2011
Curriculum implementation as both an educational practice and a policy conundrum has been the focus of academic research since the 1970s. A new perspective is taken in this article by borrowing from the literature on policy implementation in multilevel systems of government. The concepts of "hard" and "soft" policy are used to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Kennedy, Kerry J.; And Others – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1985
The successful use of Decker Walker's curriculum development model in different educational settings in Israel and Australia demonstrates that inductively derived models can assist educational practice in a way that deductive models cannot. However, Walker's model should not be viewed as a general panacea. Issues that must be examined are…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Educational Research