Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material / Edmond Hau-fai Law and Nienke Nieveen -- School-based Curriculum Development for New Times / Kerry J. Kennedy -- School-based Curriculum Development in Mainland China / Chenzhi Li and Feifei Shuai -- Managing Curriculum Change in Mainland China / Edmond Hau-Fai Law and Gangping Wu -- School-based Curriculum Development in Hong Kong / Chi-Chung Lam and Shirley S. Y. Yeung -- Implementation of a School-based Curriculum Development Project in Hong Kong / Edmond Hau-Fai Law , Jan van den Akker and Sally Wan -- The Current Curriculum Reform in Japan / Shigeru Asanuma -- The Practice of School-Based Curriculum Development in Korea / Young-Keun Jeong -- An Emergent Culture of School-Based Curriculum Development in Singapore / Nora Teo and Margery Osborne -- School-based Curriculum Development in Taiwan / Chia-Yu Chang and Jenq-Jye Hwang -- School-based Curriculum Development in Austria / Michael Schratz and Tanja Westfall-Greiter -- Changing the Patterns of Group Work in England / Maurice Galton -- School-Based Curriculum Development in Finland / Eero Ropo and Jouni Valijarvi -- Transforming the School Curriculum in Germany / Uwe Hameyer -- School-based Curriculum Development in the Irish Context / Majella Dempsey , Anne Looney and Majella O’Shea -- Schools as Curriculum Agencies in Sweden / Ulf Blossing , Mats Ekholm and Hans-Åke Scherp -- Framing and Supporting School-based Curriculum Development in the Netherlands / Nienke Nieveen , Jan van den Akker and Frans Resink -- Re-Examining the Conceptual Models for School-Based Curriculum Development / Colin J. Marsh.

Over the last decades, school-based curriculum development (SBCD) has been widely applied in many countries to bring about innovations in schools and classrooms. The notion of SBCD and its practice, albeit the diversity in terms of policies and cultures in different countries, stems from the need for a more participatory educational system, responsive to local concerns. This book provides readers with an update of the concepts related to SBCD and vivid cases about how SBCD has been conceived and implemented in six Asian countries (including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan) and seven European countries (including Austria, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and The Netherlands). The differences and commonalities in rationales and practices within and between the Asian and European continents make stimulating, new comparisons possible, elaborating and deepening the knowledge base about SBCD. This is a timely collection for school leaders and teachers, policy makers, support groups, educational researchers and students, especially in the domain of curriculum studies.