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The Flight from Physics Education: Searching for Reasons by Comparisons across the Curriculum
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Monk, Martin – Physics Education, 2008
Cross-curriculum comparisons help open up new perspectives on old issues. The flight from physics by students is one such issue. Here a comparison is made with music education and language education. Where these comparisons provide useful insights they can also warn against knee-jerk panaceas. It is suggested we need to understand how and why…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Comparative Analysis
Foreign Language and the Humanities.
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Tonkin, Humphrey – ADFL Bulletin, 1985
Discusses the status of foreign language learning in connection with the humanities, and suggests a redefinition of the mission of the foreign language department in the research university. It is proposed that students be trained in language teaching skills in combination with branches of the humanities other than literature, without neglecting…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Higher Education, Humanities, Humanities Instruction
How to Prosper during a Foreign Language Crisis.
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DuVerlie, Claud; Rosenthel, Alan S. – ADFL Bulletin, 1980
Describes an interdisciplinary approach to modern language curriculum design and its results in reversing the declining enrollment trend. These results stem from a global awareness program featuring courses on language role and language communities and training in textual analysis. Adds that the interdisciplinary approach has produced better…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Core Curriculum, Declining Enrollment, Educational Strategies
Interdisciplinary Cooperation: Will Teachers in "Average" Schools Be Left Out?
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Strasheim, Lorraine A. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
Discusses three obstacles to interdisciplinary cooperation in education: (1) compartmentalization of teachers and teaching, (2) reluctance of educators to tackle the problem, and (3) difficulties in intraschool and intrasystem communication. Recommends collecting, expanding, and sharing curricular components to achieve the goal. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Integrated Activities
Second Languages at the Universities: A Look into the Future.
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Yalden, Janice – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Presents an overview of the language teaching situation in Canada's universities, and makes suggestions for its improvement. (AM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Classical Languages, Grammar Translation Method, Higher Education
The Dual Mandate of Modern Languages.
Munoz, Louis J. – West African Journal of Education, 1976
The dual mandate of modern language learning is considered to be linguistic competence and scholarly expertise in literature or in philology. The need for the systematic study of culture in modern language studies is discussed, and programs in the United States and Great Britain are compared. (MLW)
Descriptors: Area Studies, College Language Programs, Comparative Education, Cultural Education
A Rationale for Broadening the Perspectives of Business French Programs.
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Dugan, J. Sanford – French Review, 1984
Links success of future international trade between U.S. and French-speaking world to a broader knowledge of economic systems and cultures of Quebec, Belgium, Switzerland, North and West Africa. More than just developing language competence, American students in business French need curriculum giving more exposure to diversity of cultures and…
Descriptors: Business, Communication Skills, Cultural Awareness, Developing Nations