The author describes how the project concept forms the basis for total instructional modules in many vocational programs. (HD)

The Berkeley Model teaches health via the understanding of specific body systems and eliminates the stereotyped directive-authoritarian role of the teacher. (MM)

Defines heuristics as cognitive "rules of thumb" that can help problem solvers work more efficiently and effectively. Professors can use a heuristic model of problem solving to guide students in all disciplines through the steps of problem-solving. (SWM)

Explores four questions: Should nursing education models reflect a feminist orientation? What are the characteristics of a feminist model? How would it succeed? and What would be its limitations? (SK)

Describes authentic education, seeing it as distinguished from curriculum intents in that it combines motives of learners and educational purposes into meaningful learning that enables the learner to deal with increasing amounts of the surrounding world. Asserts that process and content are not opposing dimensions but are two facets of the same…

Over the past few years, we have worked with teachers to help them better integrate technology into their classrooms, and we have come to realize that more attention needs to be paid to this during the planning process if it is to be the result of good curriculum design. As we designed professional development workshops to address this need, we…

Change in general education is changing, and there are lessons to be learned in reenvisioning the curriculum.

In this article, the author discusses how teachers and students can find opportunities in aligning their purposes to raise the curriculum from the mundane to the spiritual. The author believes that curriculum workers have the opportunity to facilitate and enhance the spiritual dimensions of the curriculum if they can facilitate liberating…

Music appears to engage humans in a holistic, abstract and often unconscious way. This paper theorises that music contributes to the fulfilment of basic human needs. It suggests how these needs may have developed and describes the unique features of music that might meet those needs. The article concludes by proposing that an understanding of how…

This article offers suggestions and resources for infusing information about working with gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients into a counselor education curriculum or for use in one's professional development as a counselor. Information is provided for core counseling areas and clinical instruction.

An indispensable part of any curriculum design in an educational setting is the analysis of the needs of the learners involved in the context. The needs can be addressed from different perspectives. Among them, the learners' needs in terms of their perceptions toward what constitute learning/teaching and testing processes are of prominent values.…

School leaders are increasingly being asked, whether by rhetoric or policy, to measurably improve student achievement. The resultant need to assist school leaders in their ability to improve teaching and learning for all students in their schools led to the establishment of the National Institute of School Leadership's (NISL's) Executive…

Few European countries have developed a broad strategic framework to raise the profile of science in education and wider society. However, a wide range of initiatives have been implemented in many countries. The impact of these various activities is nevertheless difficult to measure. School partnerships with science-related organisations are…

Attempts to Indigenise the curriculum run the risk of implying the application of an "impoverished" version of "Aboriginal pedagogy" and the promotion of corrupted understandings of Indigenous knowledge (Nakata, 2004, p. 11). What is required, Nakata (2004, p. 14) argues, is a recognition of the complexities and tensions at…