scholarly journals Competence for Students’ Future: Curriculum Change and Policy Redesign in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Wang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Curriculum Implementation ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
International Trends

Purpose: This article aims to provide a policy review of the new national curriculum program and standards for high school education announced in January 2018 and analyze the key features of curriculum change in China. Design/Approach/Methods: Applying textual analysis, this article interprets the significant changes in the national curriculum program and standards and further discusses these changes based on literature and research on curriculum. Findings: Corresponding to the international trends on core competencies, China takes a further step and designs subject core competencies to narrow the gap between theories, policy, and practice. The new national curriculum highlights the coherent design in curriculum, textbooks, teaching, and assessment. Yet there are still puzzles and challenges in high stakes examination, diverse contexts, and curriculum implementation. Originality/Value: This article might facilitate the understanding of the current high school curriculum in China, especially on its features, changes, contexts, and history.

scholarly journals High-stakes Entrance Examinations: A View from Brazil

2016 ◽  
pp. 19-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Schwartzman ◽  
Marcelo Knobel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
Entrance Examinations ◽  
Entrance Exams ◽  
Regional Characteristics

In Brazil, the growing dominance of the national exam for secondary education as a massive, unified entrance exam for higher education has several detrimental consequences. Besides effectively shaping the high school curriculum, with clear disadvantages for those who will not attend college, it restricts the diversity and regional characteristics of the higher education sector. Similar criticisms apply to other countries that use national entrance exams. Some suggestions for possible changes are given.

scholarly journals Approach of the Natural Sciences in webinars for guidance and coping the pandemic of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. e4091210705
Author(s):  
Milton de Sousa Falcão ◽  
Francisca das Chagas Oliveira ◽  
Glaziane Soares Alvarenga ◽  
Emannuel Sousa Elizeu Osório
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Great Ability ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Promising Tool

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic brought changes to world education thanks to the adoption of measures of social isolation; the use of digital resources proved to be the most viable immediate solution for the continuity of teaching, but there are also problems such as the need for different didactic-pedagogical strategies wieldy of motivating students and teachers. The use of webinars as a complementary communication and guidance resource has proved to be a promising tool. Issues related to living with COVID-19 that combine their discussions with high school curriculum represent an important contribution to the construction of a contextualized knowledge base and, based on this observation, this study proposed to evaluate the presence of contents in the area of ​​natural sciences and its technologies in COVID-19 webinars. A survey with the online video-sharing platform was carried out aiming to search for webinars on COVID-19 containing themes contained in the specific competences of natural sciences and their technologies for high school and how much these items were emphasized. The selection of the videos was made by analyzing what the title, keywords and their summary suggest. Biology, physics and chemistry have a great prominence and expert speakers with extensive experience in the area in which they work and great ability to expose the theme and the ability to clarify doubts have made webinars a valuable motivational approach to specific knowledge related to common national curriculum base - BNCC, as they involve community participation, in different contexts and using different digital technologies in conjunction with the contextual theme COVID-19.

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