Article evaluated media courses as seen from the perspective of the humanities teacher, determined to keep traditional humanities courses intact. (RK)

Discussed the progress of and development of British community colleges. (Author/RK)

Constitutes a guide to software, hardware, and multimedia learning programs. Aims to assist school board members, superintendents, and school principals with the comparative use and usefulness of today's curriculum commodities. (Author/WM)

Change in Liberal Education is a project designed to plan, develop and implement a variety of programs in undergraduate liberal education as alternatives to prevailing disciplinary-based curricula. A secondary objective is to increase understanding of the process of change. Analysis of these problems points to three central issues: (a) the nature…

This document is based on the results of a workshop held at the Reinhardswaldschule, Kassel, Germany in 1970; the workshop was attended by 52 participants from 14 countries who discussed "The Curriculum from the Eighties and Onwards." A framing principle for this report is that in place of the American emphasis on method in teacher education,…

The present document presents an outline and discussion of a course designed to instruct students in the workings of the legal processes as related to the solving of today's urban problems. The project in its entirety resulted in a product that can be adapted to meet the needs of urban science students from several instructional points of view.…

Discusses the implications of the new Chinese policy of increased contacts with the West, the reform of higher education, and the embarking on a program for the development of science and technology. (GA)

Presents human-centered and cybernetic (system theory) structuring approaches for organizing the biology curriculum. Each approach involves social and inter-disciplinary impact. (SL)

Shifts in funding priorities at the National Institute of Education may indicate significant changes in the types of activities NIE will support in coming years. Less emphasis will be placed on curriculum development activities and more on research and strengthening others' development capabilities and efforts. (Author)

Describes an environmental studies model which was used to optimize both central and school-based curricula teams. Identifies the main implementation problems as the need to identify local sources of knowledge, the need to train teachers in choosing modular curriculum units, and working with groups on a realistic project and project evaluation.…

The higher education environment is undergoing significant change as it enters a global knowledge-based economy. Technology now enables students to undertake studies that are time and place independent. To thrive in a networked learner environment, new strategic relationships must be created between library and information professionals,…

These curriculum guidelines are intended to offer some quality control for: programs just beginning with their curriculum development and other academic considerations; programs already in existence which are struggling to upgrade the content of their programs; and agencies which are administratively and financially responsible for implementing…

A vast amount of pedagogical literature, including primary source material, which treats educational developments in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden is available in the English language. Listed are the materials that appear from 1960-1973. Names and addresses of Scandinavian sources of educational documentation are also cited. (Author/RM)

Article considered the need for the creation of a home-school-community relationship that will provide each member of the community with adequate educational opportunities. (Author/RK)

John Ruskin made great contributions to educational development through his theoretical conclusions. This article takes a further look at those theories. (RK)