Category Archives: Curriculum

Strengthening Educational Capacity through Context-Relevant Curriculum Design and Evaluation

Posted on December 4, 2018 by

There is an acute shortage of health-care workers in Sudan. The Academy of Health Sciences was created to prepare health-care professionals in order to restore and ultimately maintain the requisite skills-mix. This necessitates transformative education using a context-relevant curriculum. A … Continue reading →

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Complexity and the Culture of Curriculum

Posted on October 24, 2017 by

This paper has two main foci: (1) the history of curriculum design, and (2) implications for the new sciences of chaos and complexity for the development of new forms of curriculum design and teaching implementation. Regarding the first focus, the paper posits … Continue reading →

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Addressing Intolerance and Extremism through Universal Values in Curricula

Posted on December 15, 2016 by

Underlying intolerance is the tendency to reject others’ values and/or to impose values on one another. This tendency persists in spite of growing dialogue on diversity, gender equality, the global equity imperative, and the increasing ease of real and virtual communication in the 21st century. … Continue reading →

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Curriculum Studies Based on Complexity Science

Posted on April 24, 2014 by

Complexity science is in the forefront of contemporary scientific development; its rise and development triggered the breakthrough and innovation of methodology in scientific research. Curriculum is a complex adaptive system. Complexity curriculum research also includes nonlinearity, uncertainty, self-organization and emergent … Continue reading →

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