Curriculum characteristics of in the era of globalizing and internationalizing of curriculum

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Rhimeh Mansouri Gargar ¹ , Akbar Salehi ² , Effat Abbasi ³

1 - آموزش و پرورش
2 - دانشگاه خوارزمی تهران
3 - دانشگاه خوارزمی تهران

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2016-09-22

Keywords: Curriculum, internalysing curriculum, globalizing,

Abstract :

If globalization is considered as aprocess that is happening and awareness has had a basic role, so it is important to review globalization and design curriculum for increasing the awereness of learners. On the other hand, internationalizing curriculum is a new and revolving concept that it has been noticed in the curriculum literature in the early twenty- first century. Despite the impotrtance and place of this idea, the interpretations of these words in many countries special in Iran are with ambiguous, confusing, and unclear. The recent research for considering this concept in the curriculum literature was tried to understand different interpretations of these words by using the field method and considering the research articles and reviewing internal and external journals and magazines and introduce a pattern of curriculum in the globalizing and internationalizing. The results showed there must be a difference between globalizing and internalizing of the curriculum. The real effects of revolutions in globalizing and internationalizing the curriculum must be noticeable for the educational experts and also the curriculum prlanners. In this era the curriculum elements have the features under the mentioned revolutions effect that make it difference from other previous plans. These features were considered the main elements of the plan such as the purpose, content, method, and evaluation. Also it is important to consider special approaches and plans on the basis of the culture, background, and content of a society.

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