Noting that the decision to offer special sections or courses for superior communication students is often ignored because such students are not very visible in the traditional classroom, this paper focuses on some of the considerations involved in honors programs and proposes some guidelines for developing them based on extant honors programs and…

Article discussed information concerning current school health problems and their inclusion in the curriculum for prospective teachers. (Author/RK)

School scheduling can be improved to express many of the intangibles of a school, which give the institution its heart, says this writer. He describes a good master scheduler and makes several recommendations. (Editor)

This article described some of the recent curriculum projects in integrated science developed in the United Kingdom, which now make it theoretically possible for a secondary school student to study a form of integrated science each year throughout the seven year period he is at school. (Author/RK)

Author describes a game on the analysis of attitudinal goals into observable indicators based upon the skills of instructional analysis, design and development. (Author)

This article concentrates on a methodological construct that includes concepts relating to the needs of society but which, in its totality as a process, impacts values and provides a means to describe behavior. (Author/RK)

Author reported on a workshop which has devised self-study materials for post-primary education in Nigeria. (Editor/RK)

This guide for program planners and curriculum developers identifies and describes the basic concepts in consumer education. Consumer education is defined as the process of gaining the knowledge and skills needed in managing consumer resources and taking actions to influence the factors which affect consumer decisions. The primary focus of…

Goals and rationales for designating arts education as fundamental to the educational process are presented. The document is organized into three sections. The first two sections examine goals for schooling in the United States (as analyzed by Goodlad and others) and existing rationales advanced on behalf of the centrality of the arts to…

A sampling of the literature on reading objectives shows a weak sense of direction beyond elementary school. After assessing the problem, the Bureau of Language Arts of the Chicago Board of Education selected inference as the focus of high school reading. To develop a taxonomy of inferences, the Chicago committee began inductively, by writing or…

TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO APPROACHES TO TEACHING PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS HOW TO SELECT APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES, 127 SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENTS WERE PLACED IN TWO SAMPLE GROUPS AND TAUGHT DIFFERENT CURRICULUM PRINCIPLES. GROUP I WAS TAUGHT THE FIVE POINT RATIONALE DEVELOPED BY TYLER WHILE GROUP II USED THE BLOOM CLASSIFICATION OF…

TO PROVIDE BETTER EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR A SELECT GROUP OF STUDENTS, THE SAN RAFAEL PROGRAM FOR MORE ABLE LEARNERS WAS ESTABLISHED. AMONG ITS GOALS WERE PROBLEM-SOLVING FACILITY, CREATIVITY, RESPECT FOR LEARNING, AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING. THE GOALS ALSO INCLUDED KNOWLEDGE OF FACTS, IDEAS, CONCEPTS, SOCIAL SKILLS, SENSITIVITIES AND FEELING,…

This book defines curriculum; delineates parameters of its inquiry and practice; identifies its principal problems and issues; describes, to some extent, its evolution and the state of its current art; and identifies some of its contributions to professional education in general. The discussion and selected readings are organized around seven sets…

In preparing this second edition, a fresh look was taken at literature describing practices and concepts relating to theory development in behavioral disciplines related to education for cues leading to a discussion of curriculum theory. In the belief that curriculum theory must be a subtheory of educational theory, the broad field of education…

Black studies, hence relevant education for black people in this country, have been omitted from educational curricula at all levels. Some reasons are: questions of moral responsibility involved in complying with public pressure for curriculum reforms; doubt that the experiences of black people justify study; general ignorance of Afro-American…