Although statutes, not common law, have become the dominant source of law in the United States, the time and intellectual energy most law schools devote to legislation and interpretation is inadequate. Teachers of evidence courses are uniquely positioned to change this through creative instructional use of the Federal Rules of Evidence. (MSE)

A course devoted to trial law and procedure would be useful in the law school curriculum. It is a meaningful contribution to law students' core education, and there are educational costs in not teaching it. Simply adding a trial law component to existing advocacy courses would not serve the purpose. (MSE)

Describes a model for the design of undergraduate curricula in the discipline of computing that was developed by the ACM/IEEE (Association for Computing Machinery/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Computer Society Joint Curriculum Task Force. Institutional settings and structures in which computing degrees are awarded are…

Today's curriculum frames, based on the Tyler/Taylor rationale, competency-based instruction, or Madeline Hunter's model, are not constructed to welcome paradox and eclecticism, indeterminacy, self-organization, or satire and play. Postmodernism demands a fundamental questioning of old ways and an exploration of new values. Copy-model and…

Reports on the use of PlayDoh clay in a college neuroanatomy class. Describes how students constructed a PlayDoh model of a sheep's brain subsequent to performing a standard dissection procedure. Maintains that students learned from the procedure and recommended the use of the technique in future classes. (CFR)

Presents an annotated bibliography of eight items from the ERIC database about teaching economics in the elementary grades. (CFR)

Movement experience at the middle school level can fulfill selected physical, emotional, and psychological needs of students. This article discusses a curriculum design stressing indepth skill instruction, physical fitness development, and participation in risk taking and novel skill experiences. Students must have the chance to learn, practice…

Describes a four-part curriculum that can serve as a model for incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into the high school computer curriculum. The model includes examining questions fundamental to AI, creating and designing an expert system, language processing, and creating programs that integrate machine vision with robotics and…

Discusses resources for curriculum design and choosing technology to fit with the curriculum developed. Lists questions about curriculum development raised by the Manhattan Music Curriculum Project. Describes software and hardware that place students in the many roles undertaken by musicians. Emphasizes the development of cognitive as well as…

Portuguese researchers studied secondary teachers' conceptions of teaching physics. Subjects examined vignettes describing various plans for physics lessons, then reflected on the situations. Researchers analyzed subjects' pedagogical arguments and delimited types of science teaching conceptions. Most subjects appeared to work according to a…

Challenges the writing-across-the-curriculum movement's view of the university curriculum as a confederation of interpretive communities. Argues for a common domain of discourse and inquiry, grounded in the liberal arts. Calls for resistance of a rhetorical approach that requires students to learn specialized academic languages as quickly as they…

Curriculum and teaching should be dialogic, multifaceted, critical experiences, not merely exchanges of information. Discusses the teacher's role in stimulating thinking processes and getting urban students to ask questions about class material and their own world. (CJS)

Ethnic studies' interdisciplinary nature and attention to race, ethnicity, gender, and class offer the scholarship and teaching necessary to a field of study appropriate to the liberal arts curriculum. The discipline sheds light on the nature of Western and American experience, and its development can help transform liberal studies. (MSE)

Goodlad's domain concept was used to examine content in three physical education programs. Data were collected from documents (ideological and formal domains); interviews (perceived and experiential domains); and observation (operational domain). The ideological domain was found to be the most influential curriculum perspective in the programs.…

Testing issues and concerns that should receive renewed and increased professional attention are highlighted. These include curriculum concerns, developmental matters; generalizability, content and format considerations, contextualization issues, and technology concerns. (JL)