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DeMers, Michael N. – Geography Teacher, 2016
Depending on how you determine the starting point for the technology driving geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, it is well over fifty years old now. During the first years of its existence in the early 1960s, the new technology benefited relatively few students who attended the handful of college programs that were actually…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Ability, Curriculum Development
Carani, George; Carani, José; Strong-Wilson, Teresa – McGill Journal of Education, 2014
"Alphabetização" (literacy) of young children involves a school exclusively devoted to the early years, parental participation, and teachers specialized in early literacy. This is the basis of José Carani's proposal for an "escola familia" in the municipality of Cambé (Brazil). This "Note from the Field," based on our…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Emergent Literacy, Specialization, Program Proposals
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2013
This "Program and Course Approval Handbook" assists California Community College (CCC) administrators, faculty, and staff in the development of programs and courses and the submission of these proposals for review by the Chancellor's Office. By law, the Chancellor is required to prepare and distribute a handbook for program and course…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Programs, Courses, College Curriculum
Beaky, Lenore A. – Academe, 2010
City University of New York's (CUNY) new community college, planned almost entirely by administrators and slated to open in 2012, seems designed to shunt its student body into narrow, mostly terminal career-technical programs with the promise of an associate's degree at the end. But to what purpose? To "reimagine community college education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Valter, Krisztina; Akerlind, Gerlese – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2010
The concept of research-led education is gaining increasing attention in higher education. However, the concept may be interpreted in different ways, some more feasible within an undergraduate curriculum than others. The approach described in this paper aims to introduce students to ways of thinking and acting like a researcher through engaging in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Undergraduate Study, Research Methodology, Laboratories
Schuller, Tom; Williams, Jenny – Adults Learning, 2009
"Learning Through Life," the main report from the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, is the culmination of a two-year process of consultation, analysis and reflection. The report sets out bold proposals which go well beyond the boundaries of adult education and training. Several key weaknesses in the current system were…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Research Reports
Pankhurst, Sylvia – Gender and Education, 2008
In this article, the author proposes a list of suggested teaching practices for an Ethiopian Women's College. The author offers several teaching practices on these subjects: (1) pedagogy; (2) child care; (3) personal hygiene; (4) speech training; (5) composition; (6) English and Amharic; (7) handwriting; (8) drawings; (9) artistic appreciation;…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Womens Education, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Nason, Pamela Nuttall; Whitty, Pam – Educational Action Research, 2007
In this article, we describe our efforts as project coordinators to negotiate directions and meanings at the initial stages of a childcare curriculum development project for children from birth to age five in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. Understanding curriculum as a complex relational dynamic that is shaped by the multiple social and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Speech Communication, School Readiness
Lowry, Glenn R. – 1979
Intended to strengthen the Information and Systems Sciences Program of Stockton State College, this 5-year developmental plan for 1980-1984 defines specific goals in three areas: (1) curriculum and faculty, (2) laboratory and equipment, and (3) faculty professional development. Recommendations are designed to bring about a stable faculty and a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Information Science, Laboratory Equipment
McQuay, Paul L. – 1984
A description is provided of the Automated Manufacturing/Robotics program to be offered at Delaware County Community College beginning in September 1984. Section I provides information on the use of reprogramable industrial robots in manufacturing and the rapid changes in production that can be effected through the application of automated…
Descriptors: Automation, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1990
This fifth edition of the Maryland Community Colleges Instructional Program Manual was designed to be used in the development, submission, review, and approval of all new instructional programs in the Maryland community colleges. The first section provides a timetable for program proposals and program evaluations. The next sections contain…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Program Development, Program Evaluation
California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2007
State law requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to review and comment on the need for new degree and certificate programs proposed by the public higher education systems. This report contains three policy recommendations intended to increase the likelihood that current and proposed doctoral programs in educational leadership…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Doctoral Programs, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership
North Central Technical Inst., Wausau, WI. – 1978
This final report contains the program proposal with supporting data for developing curriculum materials for and implementing an associate-degree laser technology program at the North Central Technical Institute. The proposal outline provides this information: (1) objectives for the program designed to prepare a technician to safely operate,…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Electronic Technicians
Lehner, Margaret – 1984
A proposal is presented for an Honors Scholar Program at Moraine Valley Community College in response to the need to provide gifted students with the extra challenges they seek. After providing a rationale for the program, the membership of the steering committee and curriculum committees that would develop and guide the program is designated.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Gathman, John; And Others – 1984
In 1982 the Colorado Board of Education directed the State Board of Education to organize task forces to address a variety of state educational needs. This report, presented by the Social Studies Task Force, explains the group's purposes and concerns, provides a social studies definition, and outlines the Colorado grades K-12 social studies…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Guides