A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY WAS MADE OF CURRENT GUIDANCE PROCESSES IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND OF THE INTERRELATION OF PRACTICES, NEEDS, AND IMPROVEMENTS. EXPLORATION INTO THE VARIOUS PROBLEMS AND ASPECTS OF VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS, THEIR GUIDANCE TECHNIQUES, STUDENT PREPARATION, STUDENT SELECTION, AND CURRICULUM WERE STUDIED IN RELATION TO DIFFERENT DEGREES…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO OBTAIN AND ESTABLISH CURRICULAR COMPONENTS FROM TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND TO PROJECT THE RESEARCH INTO AN OUTLINE OF ORGANIZED SUBJECT MATTER. THE STUDY IS LIMITED TO AN INVESTIGATION OF SELECTED SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL ELEMENTS OF CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY THAT ARE RECORDED AS RESOURCE REFERENCES. THE DATA WERE…

This study attempted to discover how well practitioners and specialists feel the community college is providing life-science education for all of its constituency. It compared opinions of 218 administrators and instructors of public and private junior and senior colleges concerning what they thought should be taught. The information was taken from…

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…

This feature section presents the writings of seven authors on various subject areas of the business curriculum. (MU)

The writer examines the claims of a more technological approach to everything taught in schools. He has authored a book on technology in education and is the convener of a group on technology. (CK)

The Humanization of Learning Mission is directed toward developing program alternatives which would accept as critical priorities for schooling the development of self awareness, empathic understanding, and the enhancement of social responsibility. (Author)

Bloom discusses mastery learning and automaticity. Automaticity involves a skill that is so overlearned that it becomes almost automatic. Automaticity is central to the work of talented individuals but requires tremendous time to develop and maintain. (KS)

Scottish official curricular texts, including guidelines and examination papers, are analysed for representations of "self and the environment". The environment is represented as fragmented when it is the curricular focus and is only "whole" when it is background context; "human-environment relations" are dualized;…

In this article, the authors first provide historical context for foundations in artist education at the postsecondary level. They then provide an overview of a first-year art program that challenges the status quo of education about the foundations of artistic expression. Finally, they address the implications of such differing approaches to K-12…

Alberta Education is currently considering options for enhancing health and learning outcomes of students and is exploring opportunities to develop new wellness-related curriculum. This literature review is a component of this exploratory process that will inform curriculum development and was undertaken to: (1) provide a comprehensive review of…

This paper reports on a study that explored issues of curriculum continuity at the school to university level transition in Malawi. It bases its analysis on the school integrated science curriculum and university science and technology programmes. Data were collected through interviews, documentation and classroom observations. The findings show…

Several large-scale surveys of middle-grade elementary pupils revealed that of the language arts, only reading and spelling are liked and handwriting and language are intensely disliked. (JH)

At the end of the first nine months of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) project to revise and field test the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) curriculum materials, activities are proceeding on four fronts. A coding of 61 curriculum units on a lesson-by-lesson basis has been completed and a content analysis is now being carried…

This paper lists the components of a curriculum theory, examines the constraints on theory building, and suggests several points at which the domain of curriculum research might be distinguished from learning and instruction. (Author/LLR)