Five published articles by Elliot Eisner, director of a curriculum development project in the visual arts for elementary school pupils, were examined to determine the comparable applicability of expressed educational objectives. Ninety-nine goal statements were differentiated into five categories: (1) AIMS describe a desired final state or…

In planning an art curriculum, consideration should be given to ways of instilling relevant concepts in the students who will be exposed to the course of study. In addition, the materials that will be used in the classroom should be carefully evaluated beforehand. (CK)

This review of the Twenty-Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (1926) notes the circumstances that led to its appearance and assesses the picture of curriculum work that it presented. (Author/MLF)

Four characteristics of curriculum theory are proposed: (1) Curriculum theory focuses on content, aims, and program development in education; (2) Curriculum theory rationalizes procedures for curriculum construction; (3) Curriculum theory conceptualizes curricular phenomena; and (4) Curriculum theory attempts to explain curricular phenomena. (JN)

This book provides a broad perspective on the basic curriculum questions educators face in the schools regarding the purposes, content, design, and structure of educational programs. In discussing basic issues of curriculum theory, some questions are raised: (1) How have people structured educational programs and instruction in an attempt to serve…

Public education in the United States needs a structure and organization that permits teachers, students, and parents to exercise a reasonable degree of choice from among different, but defensible, sorts of education. Our public schooling is unnecessarily and inappropriately compulsory. (Author)

The first part of this article reviews research comparing innovative to traditional curriculum introduced since 1957 and draws tentative conclusions about the influence of curricula on school achievement; the second part explores the implications of those conclusions for educational theory, research, evaluation, and practice. (JH)

This paper presents a model of the curriculum development process that reflects curriculum project practices. Regularities found in the data from one case study were checked against reports of other project practices, and those regularities common to all the projects studied served as the model foundation. The model asserts that a curriculum…