scholarly journals Engaging Foreign Curriculum Experts in Curriculum Design: A Case Study of Primary School Curriculum Change in Lesotho

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 1741-1747
Author(s):  
Molise David Nhlapo ◽  
Lokesh Ramnath Maharajh
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Primary School Curriculum

scholarly journals Studying the Compatibility of Iran's New Primary School Curriculum with the Curriculum Change Principles

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Maghsoud Amin Khandaghi ◽  
Ali Baraei
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Curriculum Changes ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Primary School Curriculum ◽  
Change Principles

Some principles are key to any change process and considering them in practice make the change process effective. The advocators for "down-up" change believe that the thoughts and ideas of individuals with practical and direct experience of the situation are more effective for making change. As main actors of curriculum, teachers have beneficial views on change plans. This survey aimed to investigate the primary school teachers' viewpoints on the compatibility between Iran's Primary School Curriculum changes and the 12 Curriculum Change Principles. Finding showed that in Iran's primary school curriculum, the principles relating to learning as an agent needed for change (principle 1), intervention for making change (principle 5), district and school-based leadership as an essential elements of long-term change success (principle 7), systematic view on change (principle 11), considering the school as the primary organizational unit for change (principle 3) and focus on objectives (principle 12) are highly considered. However, organizational and individual roles in making change (principle 4) and appropriate intervention role in reducing resistance to change (principle 4) are less considered by the subjects. Some differences were significant based on other background variables, too.

scholarly journals PRANCŪZIJOS PRADINĖ MOKYKLA: KO GALIME PASIMOKYTI? [FRENCH PRIMARY SCHOOL: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM IT?]

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-54
Author(s):  
Rita Makarskaitė-Petkevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Good School ◽  
Primary School Curriculum ◽  
Key Words Development

The article presents experiences from the visit to a French primary school (L'école élémentaire). Education of six-year old children is discussed as well as their life at school. It is also considered why the Lithuanian “Good School Conception” functions perfectly in that country, while in Lithuania this does not happen always. The goals of French primary school are to develop learner independence and responsibility; to develop their observation, curiosity, creativity; to develop communication skills; to help a child to develop physically. The core of the primary school curriculum includes civic education and lessons of “discoveries“. The author of the article discusses the variety of learners’ activities in the classroom, the teacher’s work and issues of work organisation, learning environment. It should be emphasised that primary learners discover the scientific truths through experimenting, development of motor skills and creative imagination as well as reflections. The teacher’s activity is directed towards development of the learner’s personal ability to reason, evoking of the learner’s interest in science, learning of living environment as well as perception of space and time. Key words: development of ability to reason, primary school, school learners’ activities.

scholarly journals Teachers’ and Proprietors’ perception of pre-primary school curriculum process in Ife-East Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Iroegbu Victoria Ihekerenma
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Job Training ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Methods Of Evaluation ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Primary School Curriculum

This study investigated preprimary school teachers’ and proprietors’ perception of curriculum process in preprimary education in Nigeria. 140 teachers/proprietors from private preprimary schools were purposively selected for the study. The research instrument was a 32 item researcher constructed curriculum process questionnaire in the Likert format with Cronbach’s Alpha of .852. The items were distributed into five sections: impending curriculum sensitization; curriculum objectives; contentment; methods and strategies; and methods of evaluation. The instrument was administered on the teachers and proprietors in their various schools and collected by the researcher and assistants on the same day. The resulting data were analyzed using the Chi Squared statistics. The results showed that in 28 cases out of 32, the Chi squared obtained was not significant at the .05 level. It was concluded that preprimary school teachers and proprietors had similar perceptions of preprimary curriculum process. It was recommended that preprimary school teachers and proprietors be given regular on-the-job training in this regard.

scholarly journals Analysis of Social Studies Material in Primary School Curriculum

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 4573-4576
Author(s):  
Asnawi . ◽  
Bunga Mulyahati ◽  
Ronald Fransyaigu
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
The Social ◽  
Primary School Curriculum ◽  
Concrete Operational ◽  
School Selection ◽  
Thematic Learning ◽  
Selection Of

This study aims to assess the Social Studies material contained in the book of integrated thematic curriculum in 2013 the fourth grade of primary school. Selection of the fourth grade of primary school due to the initial implementation of integrated thematic learning in curriculum 2013 in a high-class curriculum. This study used a qualitative approach with a particular method of discourse analysis and content analysis of the data obtained through text analysis and documentation. Which is the object of this research is the book of integrated thematic curriculum fourth grade of primary school in curriculum 2013. Social Studies material is organized from the teaching materials and simple close around the child to a more extensive and complex. Depth presentation of the material in the textbook Social Studies  the fourth grade of primary school thematic curriculum is associated with students' knowledge. The level of difficulty of the material adapted to the development of learners who are at the stage of "concrete-operational", giving the students in understanding the material.

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