This report consists of papers delivered at the 1971 meeting of educators sponsored by the Unesco Institute for Education. The purpose of the meeting was to assess comparative education in the context of the trend towards empiricism and borrowing from the social sciences. The report is divided into the following sections: (1) General Problems of…

Curriculum research appropriately follows, rather than precedes, development. According to the "breakthrough" view of research, curriculum development and curriculum practice exhibit a deductive applied relationship to curriculum research. The obvious fault in this view is that it ignores the milieu of value claims about what is ideal and what is…

The purpose of this study was to survey the emerging environmental educational programs in the elementary and secondary schools which focus on the aesthetics of the urban environmental as the total function of city design and its consequences upon the student as inhabitant and perceiver. A group of urban experts was chosen to formulate a consensus…

This study was designed to provide statistical analysis of certain curricular characteristics that could be used as a projective device to be considered prior to the implementation of any further changes of curricular or philosophical significance. The population of the study comprised all students at Nasson College in the classes of 1968 through…

This booklet describes a pilot project, sponsored by the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, which developed a curriculum for school nurses. The plan for the project emphasizes a) the development of a curriculum to introduce registered nurses to school nursing; b) provision for a workshop to test the curriculum…

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,…

This paper describes the evolution of a model for expanded teacher education initiated by the Minnesota School Science and Mathematics Teaching Project (MINNEMAST) and later developed as an experimental college-school project (called Project Interface) within the Division of Elementary Education at the University of Minnesota. The report details a…

Procedures and findings of a survey conducted in 1970-71, relative to the teaching of psychology in Florida secondary schools, are reported here. The objectives of the study were to obtain a broad range of information and relevant data pertaining to the status of psychology and to determine the needs of teachers for materials and audiovisual…

Following a brief description of population control in the last 10 years, this paper outlines a Five Year Plan for population education. Four prerequisites to the Plan are presented: a) traditional approaches must be accommodated or bypassed, b) new subject matter must be introduced at the expense of current content, c) value spheres must be…

The report covers an evaluation of the Uniform Driver Improvement School (UDIS) curriculum. Included in the sample were licensed California English-speaking traffic violators from the Richmond, Stockton, San Diego, and Los Angeles areas. Overall, the results directionally favored the UDIS over the control on both post accidents and convictions,…

Presented is a scheme for systematically analyzing curriculum prescriptions to produce probing arguments in defense of the instructional objectives of each curriculum. With the probing arguments thus defined, a defensible, analytical choice between the alternative prescriptions would be facilitated. Included are four detailed examples of the…

This paper is an annotated list of fifty documents on the reconceptualist philosophy of curriculum theory delivered and/or published since 1973 and many of those published prior to 1973 which had a formative influence on the movement. Each source is identified by author, title, editor, and publishing date, and each is summarized and evaluated in a…

Findings from a national study of 113 schools show that more copywriting and internship courses have been added to advertising school programs than courses in any other subject areas. Among supporting courses, marketing has been most frequently added as a requirement. (RL)

Substantial gaps often exist between occupational education and actual job duties, dominantly because of technological developments. The schools' response to needed change in curricula has been sluggish, piecemeal, and tardy. Authors suggest a strategy for accomplishing a closer match between school and work, and they illustrate its use in…

Discusses the special problems of evaluation in a curriculum research and development setting. (Editor/RK)