Discusses philosophy, aims and objectives, and structure of the Matriculation Science Curriculum of the University Sains Malaysia. Includes comments on instructional strategies, individualized learning, programmed instruction, systems approach to computer-assisted instruction (CAI) implementation, CAI authoring system, and various program…

Describes the mentor program of the Teachers College Writing Project of New York City. (HTH)

Describes a program that prepares students to be total journalists, by placing all reporting, editing, and management students, both print and broadcast, in one learning community--the integrated news center. (HTH)

Describes a journalism internship program at an Alaskan university that bridges the gap between theory and practice by requiring a series of reports that make students reflect on their media experiences and discover how these experiences relate to concepts studied in coursework within and outside the journalism department. (HTH)

Highlights a workshop exploring the objectives and activities of the Human Habitat Study, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the maintenance of a healthful and healing global environment. Workshop activities focused on left/right brain inventory, a rationale for curricula, and a strategy for developing instructional programs. (BC)

Describes and discusses adult education and community development in Nigeria, specifically in the Bendel State. Provides a brief history of adult education and community development and describes several programs, methods, and techniques. Highlights the Mass Literacy Campaign as the major priority. (CT)

Describes an environmental education program which focuses on nature in Indian myths. Instructional strategies used in the program include storytelling, free association, play-acting involving members of the audience, dancing, and sharing of artifacts during a question and answer period about Vermont Indians. (JN)

Describes an individualized reading program in which teaching methods are selected on the basis of each student's needs. (RB)

Dramatic play provides children an excellent way to express their feelings and perceptions of the world that surrounds them. It is also an alternative way for researchers and teachers to capture, understand, and interpret children's voices because of the difficulties that children have in expressing ideas through oral and written language. While…

This article contends that guided reading is one of the principal teaching techniques of primary classroom reading programs, and is an excellent way to provide classroom reading instruction to Reading Recovery children as well as children who do not need intensive intervention. The first section describes what exactly guided reading is and…

A program for utilizing undergraduate students as teaching assistants in an introductory psychology course sequence is applicable to the university, community college, or high school setting. (Author/KM)

Describes a college program inaugurated at Yale University in 1972 entitled The Literature Major'' in which literature is studied as a process. (RB)

Description of a program at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in neurosciences to aid students in diagnosing patients with neuromuscular problems. (PG)

The history department at Fordham University in 1968 inaugurated a one semester course stressing a few historical areas in depth, deemphasizing breadth of knowledge and emphasizing historical methodology and historiography. (Editor)

Reprinted with permission from the Kappa Delta Pi Record,'' October 1965. (NQ)