This book develops and presents a theory of the curriculum and pedagogy for common, general education. Part 1 inquires into how people can know values and obligations and how this knowledge should affect education. In an analysis of the moral crisis, the book seeks a resolution by examining the great ethical theories of modern times. Each theory…

This Guidebook contains ideas, examples, suggestions, and resources that can help teachers create and implement a science curriculum for all students. It is designed to be used as a guide for exploring the issues of vision, teaching, curriculum, and assessment that should be considered and debated in the move towards scientific literacy. Chapters…

Teachers in the Connecting the Curriculum (CTC) Project utilized action research to study curriculum connections. This guide provides basic information on connected curriculum and action research and explains the processes that underlie them. Chapter 1 introduces connected curriculum, including definitions, frameworks, and multidisciplinary and…

When curriculum content, instruction, and local and state assessments are aligned, they become powerful forces that contribute to student achievement. This framework presents a content and a process for developing curriculum that enables schools to realize Michigan's vision for K-12 education. The framework, which includes the resources needed to…

Eight articles, published in various issues of "Education Week" starting in March 1994 and ending July 1995, track the work of eight educational reform design teams: (1) "Back to the Future" (Lynn Olson)--the virtues and values of the past in a modern context; (2) "A Welcome Change" (Ann Bradley)--instruction school…

Education and teaching have changed in significant ways over the last decade. Since the late 1980s the Commonwealth of Australia has encouraged the development of "multi-skilled workers"; however, Alvin Toffler (1990) points out that changes in technology would create a deskilled work force with overly specialized, noninterchangeable…

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) aims to ensure that all countries, both developed and developing, have access to the best educational facilities necessary to prepare young people to play a full role in modern society. Understanding information technology (IT) and mastering IT's basic skills and concepts…

Historically, technology education evolved from several strands: Bacon's realism, Pestalozzi's belief in the practical application of knowledge, Rousseau's naturalism, Herbart's sense realism, Dewey's progressive and social reconstructionist thinking, and the influence of vocationalism. The mainstream practice of industrial arts was more a study…

When and how to integrate girls and women into Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) projects in basic education and vocational training is the focus of this manual. The volume generally follows the format developed in the Topical Reference Guide series produced by A.I.D.'s Center for Development Information and Evaluation (CDIE). The…

To design a school where all children succeed means creating a place that puts learning, rather than competition, at the heart of the process. This book does not propose Total Quality Management (TQM) as the cure for improving performance of U.S. schools, but rather argues that schools as a place and name should be replaced with the term…

The "RAMCAD" workshop summarized in this document reviewed the prospects for integrating reliability and maintainability into undergraduate engineering curricula. RAMCAD stands for Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability in Computer-Aided Design. The workshop was sponsored by Air Force human resources departments and attended by a…

The purpose of this guide, designed to support a core curriculum model in Saskatchewan (Canada), is to: (1) affirm the integral role of instruction in meeting the objectives of the core curriculum; (2) provide support for teachers in extending their range of instructional practices and in meeting the challenges of major curriculum change; (3)…

A study surveyed 207 students of English as a Second Language, aged 11-57 and at all levels, in a Brazilian English institute to derive a student profile for curriculum development. Subjects were questioned concerning: motivation for starting and continuing English language study; perceptions of the language lessons in terms of activity types,…

The relationship between instruction and instructional design is explored. The aim of instruction is to assist the individual as learner. The Learner, the Content, the Media, the Teacher Function, and the Context within which learning is to occur interact during a period of time to form an instructional episode (the CMT paradigm). Considering all…

This paper explores the ways in which the process of assuming the role of professional developer, who assists teachers in changing their teaching methods, is in itself a change process: the role is complex; it takes time; it is affected by context; and it involves the shaping and reshaping of the personal and professional lives of those involved.…