scholarly journals The Last Educational Change in Finland – its Dimensions and Multiliteracy Teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-211
Author(s):  
Arleta Suwalska

This article reveals the educational change in Finland in the context of multiliteracy. Multiliteracy is one of the seven transversal competences introduced by the Finnish basic education curriculum reform between the years 2012 and 2016. School multiliteracy is developed through cross-subject studies with the usage of particular language. There are involved various texts during teaching to prepare well-educated global citizens who are able to to overcome obstacles of the contemporary world and to follow the global changes in a job market. Multiliteracy helps prepare a global citizen with the skills of global lingua franca.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Win Phyu Thwe ◽  
Anikó Kálmán

This article reports on the role of teacher education in the curriculum reform of basic education in Myanmar. There was political change in Myanmar, a transition from military administration to democracy in 2010. Political change impacts on various sectors such as economic, education and health. As the education system was changed to meet the international standards, curriculum in basic education and teacher education were updated.  In the previous education of Myanmar that has progressed from the old monastic education to the current modern education, there has never been a curriculum framework although syllabi, textbooks, teacher’s guides with different teaching methods and various assessment forms were designed and used. Therefore, Myanmar Ministry of Education is now implementing the educational reforms by setting the curriculum framework with the direction of the National Education Law (Soe, et al.; 2017, Htet, 2020). This paper provides an overview of teacher education, basic education, curriculum reforms. Although teacher education including three institutions cooperates with basic education in implementation of the new curriculum, it found that there are still few weaknesses in implementation of the new curriculum of basic education. Soe et al. (2017) recommended that the new curriculum will fulfill local needs and circumstances and discourage the practice of rote-learning and will ensure that students grow as independent thinkers with their own sense of creativity.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Jonathan Javier Delgado Cedeño ◽  
María Gabriela Vera Vera ◽  
Juan Carlos Cruz Mendoza ◽  
Jose Grismaldo Pico Mieles

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el currículo de la educación básica ecuatoriana considerando sus innovaciones, desde el punto de vista actual, con el fin de distinguir sus características, para ello, se examinaron los precedentes que han generado cambios al currículo, se contrastaron documentos curriculares: Actualización y Fortalecimiento Curricular de la Educación General Básica (Currículo 2010) y el Currículo de los Niveles de Educación Obligatoria (Currículo 2016) y se identificaron los puntos esenciales que han sido mejorados en el último currículo de este nivel educativo. La investigación se realizó mediante revisión bibliográfica de documentos informativos, legales y curriculares. Se han abordado temáticas como: la definición del currículo, el porqué de la denominación de Educación Básica, la evaluación y ajustes al currículo y los principales sustentos legales de este nivel educativo. Con base en el Currículo 2016 se determinaron sus principales cambios y características, así también la forma en que ha sido percibido desde la experiencia docente en el quehacer educativo. Se concluye que los cambios y ajustes que se apliquen al currículo en todo tiempo, deben responder a los intereses sociales de la población y el país, de esta forma la educación cumplirá su rol aportando a la solución de problemas y el mejoramiento del sistema educativo ecuatoriano. PALABRAS CLAVE: Currículo; Educación Básica; Sistema educativo; Ajustes curriculares; Elementos curriculares. THE CURRICULUM OF ECUADORIAN BASIC EDUCATION: LOOK FROM THE PRESENT ABSTRACT The present paper is aimed to analyze the curriculum of Ecuadorian Basic Education considering its innovations from a current approach, in order to distinguish their characteristics. For it, precedents that generated changes to curriculum were examined, curricular documents were contrasted: Update and Curricular Strengthening of General Basic Education (Curriculum 2010), and Currículum of Levels of Compulsory Education (Currículum 2016), and the essential aspects that have been improved in the last curriculum of this educational level were identified. The investigation was conducted through bibliographic review of informative, legal and curricular documents. Thematics as: definition of curriculum, the reason of denomination of Basic Education, evaluation and adjustments to the curriculum, and the main legal underpinnings of this educational level. Based on the 2016 Curriculum, its main changes and characteristics were determined, as well the way it has been perceived from the teaching experience in the education daily work. It is concluded that the changes and adjustments that are applied to the curriculum at all times, must respond to the social interests of the population and the country, in this way education will fulfill its role contributing to the solution of problems and the improvement of the Ecuadorian educational system. KEYWORDS: Curriculum; Basic Education; Educational system; Curricular adjustments; Curricular elements.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 553-557
Author(s):  
Eriada Çela

Addressing gender-equality issues in education can foster enormous change in children’s lives. However, most textbooks in Albanian schools include gender stereotypes, which perpetuate gender inequality and unequal roles for men and women, both in public and private spheres. This research aims to identify and evaluate trends of gender stereotypes in textbooks, as well as the need for gender mainstreaming in basic education curriculum. The methodology is based on a desk review of textbooks from a gender perspective. The curriculum evaluation follows the context, input, process, and product (CIPP) model of evaluation, which mainly aims to assess the extent to which a certain education reform has generated positive change in schools.


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