Institutional Framework Introduce
National Center for School Curriculum and Textbook Development, Ministry of Education of China（NCCT）
NCCT is the National Centre for School Curriculum and Textbook Development. It is a department directly under the Ministry of Education China, undertaking the tasks of basic education curriculum development, assessment of students’ academic achievement, evaluation of textbooks, online communication between teachers and experts, training of teacher trainers and researchers, and implementation of the curriculum, guided by the new curriculum.
http://www.ncct.gov.cn
National Institute for Curriculum Development, the Netherlands（SLO）
SLO (established in 1975) is the Netherlands Expertise Centre for Curriculum Development, nourishing the dialogue on aims, content, and organization of learning and trying to combine the perspectives of policy, society and scientific research. The work of SLO refers to primary, secondary and vocational education, and addresses all subject domains. SLO advises the government about curriculum policy issues and develops both national curriculum frameworks as well as exemplary materials for school and classroom practice. Moreover, SLO provides (digital) information about textbooks and other learning resources. SLO is also engaged in national and international research and consultancy on curriculum innovation. The broad research areas of SLO encompass: schools and curriculum development; the role of teachers in curriculum development; dealing with diversity in education; learning resources and the use of ICT in education; principles for development of core curricula, strategies for curriculum development; evidence-based curriculum development; methodology of curriculum design research.
www.slo.nl
Guangxi Normal University（GXNU）
Guangxi Normal University (GXNU), located in Guilin, a beautiful city rich in natural wonders and historical relics, is a provincial key university in Guangxi Province. It grew out of Guangxi Provincial Teachers’ Education School founded in 1932, one of the China’s early teachers’ education schools in modern times. Since then, the university has ever been renamed six times, relocated eight times and readjusted four times. Mr. Yang Dongchun, a famous educator, historian and social activist, was the first president of the university. Enriching itself in the beautiful landscape and in the long history, GXNU has become a comprehensive university with teachers’ education as its distinctive characteristics, better basic disciplines of liberal arts and sciences, complete disciplinary fields of study and remarkable achievements in international education cooperation. A perfect talent training system with coordinated development of teachers and non-teachers education has been formed at different levels from undergraduate education to post-doctoral programs, covering higher education programs, continuing education programs and vocational programs.
Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education in Europe (CIDREE)
CIDREE is the Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education in Europe. It is a self-managing network of educational bodies that plays a recognized national role in the field of curriculum development and/or educational research. CIDREE was set up in 1990 with a view to establishing closer working relationships among European educational systems.
CIDREE is run by the members, for the members.
International Bureau of Education (UNESCO-IBE)
The International Bureau of Education (IBE) is UNESCO’s institute specialized in learning content and methods, as well as the policies and processes of curriculum development and implementation. The IBE aims to contribute to the attainment of quality EFA by promoting the development of quality curricula. Its support for UNESCO Member States covers the areas of capacity development and technical assistance in curriculum, knowledge production and management, as well as educational policy dialogue. In the perspective of serving as a Centre of Excellence in Curriculum, IBE pays special attention to enhancing institutional capacities for curriculum development at different levels of education systems.