Curriculum and the Covid-19 crisis

PROSPECTS - The article argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a curriculum crisis, because it is a humanitarian crisis. Survival—physical, psychological, educational—is at stake. As...     

Richard's Progress Towards Literacy

Richard, a 23 year old athetoid, could not read, write or speak intelligibly. Betty Hughes, divisional Co-ordinator for Adult Basic Education, Lincolnshire Education Authority, describes his progress towards literacy and his use of the Electraid     

新冠肺炎疫情影响下宁波出口贸易发展困境及对策

从出口规模、主要出口商品、出口市场分布、出口模式方面比较新冠肺炎疫情出现前后两年宁波出口贸易的变化情况,深入分析宁波出口贸易发展所面临的六大困境,针对当前形势提出摆脱困境的有效策略。     

Covid-19 pandemic and the prospects of education in South Africa

PROSPECTS - The Covid-19 pandemic has caused havoc in the world, radically changing our lives and raising new and old questions, both existential and educational. This pandemic has revealed the...     

Curricular responsiveness to the Covid-19 crisis: The case of Indonesia

This article focuses on the effect of the Covid-19 crisis on education systems in Indonesia. It describes and illuminates various curricular responses, from nation-based actions to policies by the office of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. The article asks: How does the Covid-19 crisis affect education systems, activities, policies, and practices in the Indonesia archipelago? How has the central government responded to the Covid-19 crisis within educational institutions? What do these institutions’ curricular responses look like? What are some of the guiding curricular principles of schooling, teaching, and learning emerging and circulating during the Covid-19 crisis and within educational institutions’ efforts to revive educational life, possibilities, and continuance? It is hoped that this article on the case of Indonesia will promote and contribute to new sharing of the global understanding of curriculum responsiveness, teaching, learning, policy, and practice during the current Covid-19 crisis.

     

Preschool Education in Turkey During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study

Early Childhood Education Journal - This study investigated the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic on preschool education and sought answers to how preschool education is implemented, what kind...     

Quality early childhood education for all and the Covid-19 crisis: A viewpoint

The purpose of this viewpoint is to consider the impact of the current Covid-19 crisis on the educational prospects of young children attending early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Studies show that health pandemics and environmental, political, and socio-economic crises jeopardize children’s development and education. It is likely that for the immediate future, young children will continue to experience emotional and psychological stress. A curriculum that does not take into consideration a pandemic of the scale we are witnessing today creates unnecessary pressure and anxiety not just on young children but also on the adults who care for and teach them. This article outlines actions to ensure quality education for all as suggested by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The response of ECEC curricula to the pandemic may potentially act as a catalyst for educational change.

     

Exams tested by Covid-19: An opportunity to rethink standardized senior secondary examinations

PROSPECTS - The global Covid-19 pandemic is testing the responsiveness of school systems. Extensive discourse about disruptions to the standardized examinations students take in their final year of...     

Waking up to the dawn of a new era: Reconceptualization of curriculum post Covid-19

PROSPECTS - Covid-19, the most severe global pandemic since the Spanish flu that followed World War I, threatens nearly every country, from global powers to developing nations. This threat presents...     

疫情下的教育国际公共产品供给:世界危机与中国行动

新冠肺炎疫情使全球教育受到严峻挑战。为了抗击疫情、缓解冲击、重建疫情后的世界教育、维护人类共同利益,多个国际组织呼吁各国提供教育国际公共产品。通过回溯"公共产品"概念的出现与形成,梳理"国际公共产品"理念的发展,探讨国际公共产品对全球治理的价值,分析国际公共产品的类型,尝试对教育国际公共产品进行分层分类。此外,通过检视中国为提供国际公共产品所做的努力,向中国比较教育工作者提出了共同奋斗的建议。     

School curriculum in South Africa in the Covid-19 context: An opportunity for education for relevance

The pandemic nature of the Covid-19 virus and the infectious potential that this virus has for the global population demands a radical response. This article focuses on school education within the context of Covid-19 and asks a fundamental curriculum question around what knowledge is most worthwhile for school education in response to this disease. Schools within South Africa have been closed for an extended period and, within the guidelines for dealing with this infectious disease, social distancing has become a key component in determining how and when schools should reopen. This uncertainty has led to speculations, suggestions, proposals and tentative plans for a school recovery plan to save the integrity of the academic year. The article reviews some of the suggestions, proposals, and plans, which illuminate a technical concern of curriculum coverage rather than a curriculum concern of what learning should be pursued post the lockdown period. It also argues that, going forward, a review of the purpose of school is needed. If learning is the bedrock for determining a school curriculum, it should of necessity be relevant and responsive to the issues and challenges of the country within a global world.

     

Exploring the need for a responsive school curriculum to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic in Pakistan

PROSPECTS - The article investigates the response of the Pakistani curriculum to the Covid-19 outbreak. It also looks into the development of a curriculum that addresses the specificities of...     

The significance of sense in the time of plagues: Curricular responsiveness to the Covid-19 crisis

PROSPECTS - The purpose of this article is to interrogate ways that curriculum can respond critically to already existing global emergencies (including pandemics) while also becoming more proactive...     

论社区在新冠疫情防控中的阻击作用及发挥

社区在新冠肺炎疫情防控工作中发挥着"阻击"作用,要打好这场人民战争,就要正确理解和把握社区的职责定位,认清社区自身的优势和短板,严格防控、科学施策、完善机制,构建强大的人民防线,就一定能够赢得战"疫"伟大胜利。     

Literacy Literacy

The paper argues that the term ‘literacy’ has become attached to too many disparate practices, and that renewed attention needs to be paid to how the acquisition and use of skills of written communication are conditioned by the core structures of the home, the classroom, and the state. It reviews the current usages of literacy and examines the agenda for further research in the central areas of reading and particularly writing. Attention is drawn to the contemporary engagement with literacy as a basic skill, and to the recent implementation in England of the “National Literacy Strategy.” The close parallels between the 19th and early 21st century literacy strategies are noted. If historians wish to apply their research to an interrogation of contemporary ideology and practice, greater attention should be paid to domestic instruction and to the role of government over time.     

The response of clinical practice curriculum in teacher education to the Covid-19 breakout: A case study from Israel

PROSPECTS - This case study explores how teacher education curriculum in a college in Israel responded to the Covid-19 outbreak. The article focuses on the clinical component of the preservice...     

Determining the perceptions of pre-service teachers on technology-based learning during the Covid-19 process: a latent class analysis approach

Education and Information Technologies - In the study, latent class analysis (LCA) was used to determine the unobserved structures and the subpopulations of pre-service teachers’...