"The curriculum challenges the narrative of the violent extremists that there is an irreconcilable divide between Muslim believers and the apostate 'others'".
In doing so, a broad narrative curriculum could be taught across five years, allowing for pupils to study in-depth their national history.
Thus, the narrative curriculum's expression activity established a link between the knowledge learned in school and students' lives.
As a result, the expression activity design of the narrative curriculum allowed movement-oriented expression activities to promote intellectual growth and enable students to make diverse and creative self-expressions.
For example, the curriculum includes examples of narrative modes of assessment such as "saying, doing and representing" that capture children's learning within the contexts of relationships and environments, which interplay with the team's intentional interactions such as "responding, challenging and extending" and are focused on the child's learning needs.
There, he says, these young people learn that "wild" means just that—something that does not conform to the neat outline of a curriculum or the logical narrative of even the best documentary, something the children must come to grips with on their own.
In developing the curriculum, we drew on narratives about growing up with HIV contributed by young Africans to a 2013 scriptwriting competition.
"Challenging the master narrative of traditional curriculum is a strategy within higher education that promotes multicultural education and equity".
In both cases, students collaborated in playing the videogame, and teachers led whole-class and small-group discussions to relate the game narrative to the curriculum.
But non-violence will become more than a mere homily only when it is taught accurately as a form of critique in our curriculum, particularly in relation to narratives about violence we confront in our bloodlust-driven media culture today.
