The American Association of Dental Schools' guidelines for dental hygiene curriculum cover the scope and definitions of care for the handicapped, interrelationships between disciplines and courses, a curriculum overview, primary educational goals, prerequisites, a core content outline, specific behavioral objectives, sequencing, faculty, and…

Traces the elusive search for a social studies definition since 1916. Explains debate over social studies as social science or as selective use of knowledge to promote citizenship. Attributes social studies' indeterminate focus to its objective of reflecting social reality. Suggests definition should recognize social studies as a field of applied…

A key question addressed in this article is: How does the increased pressure for expertise in IRD translate itself into the demand for educational services and the design of appropriate curricula on a European-wide basis? This article examines these issues and generates a number of stepping stones for the development of Education and Training for…

This paper looks at two standards documents-the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) and the Performance Standards (New Standards, 1997)-to investigate curriculum conceptions included in each document. Eisner's (1985) five curriculum orientations are used as a lens to better conceptualize the messages behind these…

This document contains a set of curriculum objectives in mathematics for elementary and middle school students in Boston, Massachusetts. The objectives, which include all the Massachusetts Basic Skills, were based on a wide variety of curricula, textbooks, and academic literature, and were reviewed by several teachers, administrators, and parents…

Discusses functional education or education as training for daily living. Reprint from September 1924 "Elementary School Journal." (JMB)

Offers some reflections on the professional commitments of undergraduate English and argues the need for establishing clearly defined educational goals. (RB)

Author believes that the curricula of schools should be derived from theoretical considerations rather than ad hoc necessity, and focuses on an article by R. C. Whitfield and his views of the nature of curriculum planning. (Author/RK)

Considered the art curriculum and the need to emphasize the cognitive aspects of a child's perceptual development. (Author/RK)

Political science education guidelines based on the writings of political scientists offer little aid in developing specific curriculum content. (KM)

The debate continues as to whether the school should be a transmitter of traditional knowledge in the various academic disciplines or be the center of relevance for students' personal concerns. These authors opt for relevance. (Editor)

Computers are integrated into science education when they are used as the most appropriate tool or delivery system to support the goals of science education. The goals of science education can be condensed into two general areas. One area concerns the preparation of a science-literate citizenry; the second area concerns understanding the…

The basic steps of content analysis are: (1) selecting the questions to be asked about course objectives, (2) developing the categories under each question, (3) designing a tabulation card for each objective, (4) coding the objectives, and (5) tabulation of responses. (MW)

If the social sciences are ever fully to justify their status as sciences, they must accentuate the principle that all meaningful knowledge results from comparisons. This knowledge can only result from an interdisciplinary humanistic background. (Author/PG)