Collaborative Curriculum Design for Sustainable Innovation and Teacher Learning

This chapter examines the Research, Development, and Diffusion (RD&D) model, which for many years has dominated how research is used to inform the design of (large-scale) curriculum innovations. Specifically, we report a study that aimed to ascertain how research and practice relationships are shape…

The study presented in this chapter is a synthesis of four sub-studies conducted in the context of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and the emergence of community colleges as TVET institutions in Yemen. Academic departments in these institutions, particularly the Heads of Departmen…

Ghanaian polytechnics were designed to equip students with competencies that make them readily employable or allow them to set up their own businesses. In order to fulfill this mission, the studies reported in this chapter aimed to improve internship practices at the Departments of Hotel Catering an…

The main aim of the study reported in this chapter was to contribute to an improved curriculum for student internship through the involvement of major stakeholders (teachers, industry and students) in the collaborative design of curriculum materials. This chapter focuses on a needs analysis that was…