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Responding to profound social, political and technological changes, recent global trends in education have included the emergence of new forms of curriculum policy. Addressing a gap in the literature, this book investigates the ways in which curriculum policy is influenced, formulated, and enacted in a number of countries-cases in Europe. This important collection uses the concept of 'curriculum making' as an analytical tool to explore the processes and phases of curriculum policy reform experienced across countries. Drawing first on international perspectives and then presenting a series of country case studies, written by internationally recognised curriculum specialists, the chapters explore curriculum making as an activity that occurs across multiple layers of educational systems, through a continual interplay of the global and local. Concluding with a comparative analysis of the contextual factors that shape curricular practices in different contexts, this book is a must-have resource for educational policy makers, researchers, teachers and teacher educators across the globe.

AbstractIn 2018, in his lawsuit against Governor Andrew Como, Naftuli Moster alerted the world to the inequality between public and private education in New York State. This Note proposes amending the Felder Amendment to ensure that private school students in New York State are given a "substantially equivalent" education to those students in public schools. By making the Felder Amendment more specific in the guidelines it uses to assess the quality of the private schools, New York State can ensure that all children are being given an equitable education.

Prolegomenon: queer theories and stem education / Steve Fifield and Will Letts -- I snow queen "nigger" : (school) science / Francis S. Broadway -- Queering science education without making too much sense / Steve Fifield and Will Letts -- Beyond nature talk : transforming environmental education with critical and queer theories / Blake M. R. Flessas and Timothy D. Zimmerman -- Wonder in the science classroom / Andrew Gilbert and Emily M. Gray -- Teaching queering physics : an agenda for research and practice / Helene Gotschel -- What does queer theory have to do with teaching science in elementary schools? / Kristin L. Gunckel -- Queering STEM learningscapes / Joe E. Heimlich -- What's in a name? : reflections on learning and teaching in central Texas / Tommye Hutson -- Strange precipitate : how interest in science produces different kinds of students / Kathryn L. Kirchgasler -- What makes girls and boys so desirable? : STEM education -- Beyond gender binaries / Michelle L. Knaier -- Children, nomads, and queering : desire and surprise in a wiggly world / Sheri Leafgren and Scott Sander -- Inviting the mess : a children's museum's transgressive tactics for unleashing play / Anna MacDermut and Adrian Zongrone -- Thinking like a fox : queering the science classroom when teaching about sex and sexuality / Michael J. Reiss -- Exhibiting doctors and nurses : queering professional education in a medical museum / Cecilia Rodehn -- Camping science education : a trip to camp wilde and the queer nature of nature / Nicholas Santavicca, Jesse Bazzul and Stephen Witzig -- Towards a queer curriculum of infinity : what is the biggest number you can think of? / James Sheldon -- Yearning, learning, and earning : the gritty ontologies of American engineering education / Amy E. Slaton, Erin A. Cech and Donna M. Riley -- The bargain / Charlotte Boulay.

The following paper discusses the implications of government policy on widening of participation at third level institutes. The increase in 'non-traditional' students has been widely recognised on an international scale; however some inequality issues still exist. The 'struggles' associated with widening of participation and creating a 'new' student type is discussed in particular reference to chemistry education. A change in mindset of staff on their pedagogical approach to cater for a diverse student body with a broad range of learner types is required. This must be supported from a departmental and institutional level. A look at the literature to investigate what best practice may be in supporting the 'new' third level student is reviewed. In conclusion a view at what the future may hold for third level institutes catering for the 'new' student type is summarised.