This paper discusses curriculum reform in Italy. Teachers should offer a global approach to education while teaching civic education to students. Referred to as "making culture," civic education should contain content that satisfies the criteria of validity, significance, interest, and student learning. Schools should create new…

Different groups have different ideas about how schools should be restructured. Although decision-making and control are increasingly shared with other groups, the principal remains most accountable. Innovative leadership styles, such as the inhouse critic and the master generalist, address issues of curriculum totality, function, and goals.…

A secondary social studies model curriculum guide for Alaska is presented. The body of the guide lists topics/concepts, learning outcomes/objectives, and sample learning activities in a 3 column format. The first column, topics/concepts, describes the content area, defining the subject broadly and listing subconcepts or associated vocabulary. The…

By not considering the meaning of art, schools easily find a superficial niche for the arts in the curriculum. Thus, art education is usually viewed as a diversion designed for recreation or as a "carrot" to attract students to the larger curriculum. Its peripheral position is revealed by the miniscule amount of time allotted it, the lack of goals…

Author discussed the deportment and attitudes of the girls at the York Way open class, attached to the Starcross School, and the influence the school has on influencing the girls from becoming truants. (RK)

This article describes an immensely successful responsibility-generating teaching format implemented in the undergraduate psychology curriculum at Los Angeles City College. (Editor)

Although students' motivation is crucially important, present curriculummodels focus more attention on objectives than on how to engage students' interest and effort. Proposes a method to clarify discussions of how children can be motivated in order to make explicit the consequences for curriculum design. Describes its use in the current work of…

This essay intended to carry the argument about curriculum content and methods in secondary education onto new ground. (Editor/RK)

The author discusses the relevance of a modular system to adult education programs and explains how a tentative module system for workers' education was set up in Zambia. (Author/JB)

This final report on the American Association of School Administrators' 1980 Summer Instructional Leadership Conference includes information on the background and scope of the project, a list of presenters and their topics, and plans for future programs. In addition, abstracts of 20 papers presented at the conference are appended. (WD)

This article discusses the notion that three radically different deep structures operate in literature education today, providing a useful way to examine and describe a culture's influence on its literature curricula. The structures are identified as (1) imitative--assumes that literature forms a heritage and that reading, absorbing, and imitating…