Title
van den Akker, Jan, "Building Bridges: How Research May improve Curriculum Policies and Classroom Practices," pp. 175-195 in Sheila M. Stoney, Ed., Beyond Lisbon 2010: Perspectives from Research and Development for Education Policy in Europe. CIDREE and NFER, 2010.
Annotation
Explores ways that design and development research (D&DR) can strengthen curriculum policy making and classroom practices; reiterates the author's 2003 conceptualization of curriculum and curriculum development strategies; sets out key features of curriculum design and development research (preliminary investigation, theoretical embedding, empirical testing, documentation, analysis and refection on process and outcomes, evaluation); gives general format that design principles derived through this process should take; encourages international sharing of curriculum D&DR findings.
Broad Topical Focus
Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Curriculum Develpment, Organizaion, Design, Curricuum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline
Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Development as Inquiry
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Development Strategies
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