Curriculum development should be a comprehensive process requiring a broad-based view of the educational system and its place within society, thus necessitating the use of a systematic curriculum development model. Such a model is provided here. Three references are provided. (DCS)

Constructing a problem for dynamic programming requires the listing of units, e.g., chapters, which might be included, together with possible levels of effort or cost and judged values for all usage levels. Given such a table and total permissable cost, a computer program will generate a prescription for optimal curriculum. (MV)

This book introduces curriculum as knowledge, curriculum as work, and curriculum as professional practice. The author discusses curriculum from theoretical and practical perspectives to acquaint readers with the study of curriculum and help them to become effective curriculum practitioners. The book: (1) Emphasizes the various dimensions of…

This paper discusses Working Ahead: The National Workforce and Career Development Curriculum, a program developed by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at New Jerseys Rutgers University. The program seeks to provide practical help and skills development to those who currently are, or want to be, front-line workforce career…

Items representing the conceptual and theoretical basis of MACOS and applied studies in the classroom offer a representative sample of accessible materials. (Author/KM)

Discusses various curriculum designs in social work education. (HS)

The focus of this paper is on strategies to re-develop college and university curriculum programs and classroom instructional approaches in order to make them relevant and desirable to the culturally different college student. (Author)

In this article the staple classroom learning activities and techniques are examined exploring the following hypothesis: If the learner cannot be wooed into an activity to the extent that he actually plays it as a game, the activity is not appropriate for that particular learner and should be replaced. (Author)

Advocates the training of environmental generalists'' in an experience-based interdisciplinary program. Environmental generalists'' are needed for managing the environmental parameters in both the long and short term. (AL)

The behaviors that underlie the creative process have been shown to be basic to learning and problem solving. Process curricula attempt to develop many of these behaviors. (CK)

Essay which argues that the new instructional materials often lose their vitality by being fitted into a static curriculum. The author states: "We must go much farther than we have in both bringing 'stuff' into the classroom and using it there. The only hope of significant change in students' long-term attitudes, competence and self-reliance rests…