Many stakeholders in education undertake comparisons of curricula. Governments increasingly compare their states’ curricula with overseas models when searching for new initiatives and when attempting to enhance international competitiveness; parents compare the offerings of schools in order to choose suitable institutions for their children; students look at the range of courses available when they select electives; and all parties except possibly the pupils make comparisons between current curricula and those which operated in earlier historical periods.
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Adamson, B., Morris, P. (2007). Comparing Curricula. In: Bray, M., Adamson, B., Mason, M. (eds) Comparative Education Research. CERC Studies in Comparative Education, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6189-9_11
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