Health education curriculums need to specifically prepare healthcare professionals to respond to a pandemic when it comes to aspects like infection control, aged care and mental health.
The Cree concept ‘wâhkôhtowin’ emphasizes more-than-human kinship relations.
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Leaked curriculum drafts in Alberta show a desire to revive old colonial myths. To face today's challenges, we need stories that teach how humans are related to each other and to all life forms.
Your country needs YOU to be a critical friend.
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In a recent survey, 64% of youths said they've experienced bushfires, heatwaves and drought in the past three years. But 88% believe they're not taught to protect themselves and their communities.
Children make their way to school in Fort Portal, Uganda.
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The fact that teachers in Uganda's rural schools weren't trained in the local language means they can't teach children in their mother tongue and this leads to poor literacy acquisition.
Australian schools are pretty much left to their own devices when it comes to teaching students about the climate emergency.
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Despite calls for climate change to be part of our education, Australia has not designed, implemented nor funded a coherent, educational approach to our climate emergency.
NAPLAN’s numeracy testing is not at the same level as the mathematics curriculum students are studying.
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It's taken more than 30 years for Welsh education to be overhauled – but will these changes benefit pupils?
In increasingly diverse societies, teaching must recognize the importance of affirming students’ cultural backgrounds in all aspects of learning.
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National programs have not yielded improved achievement rates in schools. We need to empower local people to take responsibility and collaborate to develop programs.
Food education takes place in preschools, primary schools and secondary schools, though in different ways and to different degrees.
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By changing the curriculum, Scotland acknowledges that society has always been diverse – and that will help more young people feel accepted.
A man adds his comments to a spontaneous memorial of flowers and sidewalk writing that has appeared a block from the Tree of Life Synagogue on Monday, Oct. 29. A gunman shot a killed 11 people while they worshipped at the synagogue the Saturday before.
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To grasp how extraordinary evils are often committed by ordinary people, we need to consider how we define evil, and most importantly, whom we consider to be the agents of evil.
NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian says NSW will ‘declutter’ the school curriculum in the first review in 30 years.
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The NSW government will review the K-12 curriculum over the next 18 months. Simplistic approaches may suggest reducing the number of subjects, but this would be a backward step.
Young people don’t always know exactly what they want to study, or what their interests are. Flexibility helps.
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