This curricular revision set the tone for later changes in the national curriculum.
In order to develop this research we have selected, in the African Portuguese-speaking countries: the Faculty of Medicine of the University Agostinho Neto (FMUAN), Angola and the Faculty of Medicine of the University Eduardo Mondlane (FMUEM), Mozambique with traditional curricula according to the current curricular reform set up with new directives.
Finally, one more unique and powerful feature of this set of instructional modules is that it can be used in a broad range of curricular settings.
We then combined this hypothesis with common features of existing IEM curricula to design a new curricular structure and set out to execute it.
Nursery education is by definition located within an education system in which explicit (national) curricular goals are set, and in which the educational performance of the child is measured according to national expectations and standards.
"They can be used to improve performance; they are less vulnerable to charges of cultural or socioeconomic bias; and they are more appropriate for schools because they set clear curricular guidelines and clarify what is important for students to learn.
Peer educators conducted educational sessions as an extra-curricular activity once a week for 90 minutes in a class room setting.
Setting up textbook platforms on new devices like Kno and Inkling, making an environment for meta-curricular activities and non-traditional learning like Khan Academy, or virtualizing the whole education experience, something with which many universities are tinkering.
In setting the ground rules for true PBL, Maudsley emphasized that it is both "method and philosophy", a comprehensive curricular strategy to be supported, and not undermined, by other curricular elements [ 1].
The report shows that despite a generally solid curricular foundation for the promotion of respect, tolerance and acceptance through the basic education system, ethnically based separation remains an issue in the school setting.
