This paper documents the background of a curriculum framework, the Foundation Areas of Learning, for children from birth to age 3 in South Australia. The paper examines some of the dilemmas in creating such a framework and some of the rewards as the system coped with the challenge of including its youngest learners in a clearly articulated…

This resource book provides ideas, strategies, techniques, examples, and resources for organizing, implementing, sustaining, and assessing character education programs in K-12 schools. The text is organized into several topics: (1) historical and theoretical bases for character education; (2) a description of a comprehensive character education…

Throughout the last 40 years, educational policymakers have designed educational interventions for the purpose of improving the learning of disadvantaged students and of children with special needs, beginning with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). More than 20 years ago, with the publication of "A Nation at Risk" (National…

A look at what students think about suggests that real social thinkers could be developed if students are provided with a breadth of knowledge to think about, a variety of models to use to begin thinking about it, and then are permitted to think. (Author/KM)

Article explained how to get ready for an art program by planning an individualized curriculum with which children's learning experiences can be broadened. (Author/RK)

A theory put forward by Reginald Archambault is that moral education can be fostered through the study of other subjects - he suggested history and literature. Article examined this theory in relation to art. (Author/RK)

A modular approach to vocational curriculum development is in operation at Admiral Perry Vocational-Technical School in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. Computer terminals located in each classroom direct students in individualized instruction. Several examples are cited of the implementation of the modular approach to curriculum development in vocational…

Describes a practicum course using videotape for artistic and self-discovery purposes. (CH)

Discusses the curriculum of "Introduction to Genetics" of the Unitversity of Freiburg, West Germany. (DD)

The design of a computer-assisted instruction language arts curriculum for the deaf is discussed. (DB)

This article presents an interesting formula which organizes instruction for a course according to the proficiency to be attained at three different levels. (Editor)

Some tips on helping underqualified persons prepare for community college. Manpower Research Visibility is a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (Editor)

The purpose of this article is to clarify some concepts integral to the application of systems theory, and to show how its use may result in humanized education. (Author)