Issue-Based Curriculum is an educational framework that organizes academic content around contentious, real-world socioscientific issues to foster critical thinking, interdisciplinary learning, and informed decision-making, distinguishing it from traditional subject-centered curricula by its focus on societal relevance and problem-based inquiry.
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Issue-centered Curriculum
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Teaching Public Issues in the High School
L. C. Smith, Owen van den Berg · Educational Action Research · 2000 · 170 citations
Controversial Issues and the Curriculum
R. F. Dearden · Journal of Curriculum Studies · 1981 · 142 citations
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Institutions
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University of Missouri
Columbia, United States
4 h-index
11 publications
620 citations
District of Columbia Public School
Washington D.C., United States
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2 publications
189 citations
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, United States
2 h-index
3 publications
191 citations
University of Southampton
Southampton, United Kingdom
2 h-index
3 publications
404 citations
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lincoln, United States
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2 publications
32 citations
Queensland Department of Education
Brisbane, Australia
1 h-index
1 publications
143 citations
Northwest Missouri State University
Maryville, United States
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1 publications
16 citations
University of Gothenburg
Gothenburg, Sweden
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3 publications
57 citations
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- The Social Studies
6 publications · 117 citations
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- The Journal of Social Studies Research
3 publications · 99 citations
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- International Journal of Science Education
IJSE · 3 publications · 706 citations
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- Journal of Philosophy of Education
3 publications · 153 citations
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- PubMed
Repository · 2 publications · 33 citations
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