Sustainability as a core concept of an integrated science curriculum: Can the Czech curriculum follow the western countries?
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F21%3A10434143" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/21:10434143 - isvavai.cz</a>
Výsledek na webu
<a href="https://library.iated.org/view/STRATILOVAURVALKOVA2021SUS" target="_blank" >https://library.iated.org/view/STRATILOVAURVALKOVA2021SUS</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2021.1595" target="_blank" >10.21125/iceri.2021.1595</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Sustainability as a core concept of an integrated science curriculum: Can the Czech curriculum follow the western countries?
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
Curriculum revisions have been recently approved in many European countries. In the Czech Republic, ISCED1 and ISCED2 curricula are currently undergoing revision, which is a timely opportunity to learn from the experience of other countries by gaining insight into their educational standards through comparative analysis. For this purpose, we selected curricula of European countries and regions with mandatory integrated science curricula, namely the UK (more specifically, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland), Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Spain (Catalonia) and Norway (both the current version and the version valid from September 2021). After retrieving curricula currently valid in these countries, particularly their sections on science education, we compared ten curricula with Czech curriculum to identify similarities and differences. This inductive comparative analysis revealed several individual scientific themes in biology, chemistry, physics and geology. We also addressed more complex concepts, such as developing scientific thinking and reasoning among students and their ability to apply scientific knowledge in everyday life, focusing on the strong integrative role of sustainable development in education. Most of these curricula show a shift from subject-based to competency-based curriculum. In contrast, the Czech curriculum still in force remains subject-based despite providing schools with the possibility to integrate educational subjects, e.g., the area of Man and Nature (physics, chemistry, biology and geography) since 2007. Yet, most schools and teachers continue to follow the long-established, traditional system of teaching individual subjects. Therefore, in line with the curricula analysed in this study, we argue that the concept of sustainable development in education can be used as a primer for overcoming barriers to a competency-based approach in setting national curricula based on policy learning.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Sustainability as a core concept of an integrated science curriculum: Can the Czech curriculum follow the western countries?
Popis výsledku anglicky
Curriculum revisions have been recently approved in many European countries. In the Czech Republic, ISCED1 and ISCED2 curricula are currently undergoing revision, which is a timely opportunity to learn from the experience of other countries by gaining insight into their educational standards through comparative analysis. For this purpose, we selected curricula of European countries and regions with mandatory integrated science curricula, namely the UK (more specifically, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland), Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Spain (Catalonia) and Norway (both the current version and the version valid from September 2021). After retrieving curricula currently valid in these countries, particularly their sections on science education, we compared ten curricula with Czech curriculum to identify similarities and differences. This inductive comparative analysis revealed several individual scientific themes in biology, chemistry, physics and geology. We also addressed more complex concepts, such as developing scientific thinking and reasoning among students and their ability to apply scientific knowledge in everyday life, focusing on the strong integrative role of sustainable development in education. Most of these curricula show a shift from subject-based to competency-based curriculum. In contrast, the Czech curriculum still in force remains subject-based despite providing schools with the possibility to integrate educational subjects, e.g., the area of Man and Nature (physics, chemistry, biology and geography) since 2007. Yet, most schools and teachers continue to follow the long-established, traditional system of teaching individual subjects. Therefore, in line with the curricula analysed in this study, we argue that the concept of sustainable development in education can be used as a primer for overcoming barriers to a competency-based approach in setting national curricula based on policy learning.
Klasifikace
Druh
D - Stať ve sborníku
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2021
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název statě ve sborníku
Proceedings of ICERI2021 Conference
ISBN
978-84-09-34549-6
ISSN
2340-1095
e-ISSN
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Počet stran výsledku
9
Strana od-do
7092-7100
Název nakladatele
IATED - Int Assoc Technology Education & Developmentlauri Volpi 6, Valenica, Burjassot 46100, Spain
Místo vydání
Sevilla
Místo konání akce
Sevilla
Datum konání akce
8. 11. 2021
Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti
EUR - Evropská akce
Kód UT WoS článku
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