Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a revolt against what she labels as "Androcentric Culture" where men have access to the world while women have access only to the home and where "the common humanity" of women has largely been ignored. Salvadore Dali's "The Object as Revealed in…

Bloomfield College (New Jersey) has encouraged faculty development in inclusive curricula through a faculty development program that guaranteed academic freedom, was begun with faculty members' own reflective practice, and was interdisciplinary and community-wide. This program was a central facet of a larger, institution-wide diversity effort.…

This document is the report of a task force established to survey all arts education programs in New Jersey, develop a model curriculum with sequential instruction for grades kindergarten through grade 12, evaluate the effects of the arts experience on students, review and make recommendations to improve certification requirements for arts…

This curriculum guide is designed to provide high school teachers of English, social studies, and Latin with the necessary background and investigative methods for teaching Roman culture through Roman literature and teaching Roman literature in its cultural context. The family is used as the focus of the guide because it is believed that an…

The interdisciplinary approach to education applies methods and language from more than one discipline to examine a central theme, issue, problem, topic, or experience, and is utilized in order to enhance the ability of students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of various disciplines. This guide to developing interddisciplinary…

The technical communications program at Clarkson College (New York) offers students 23 courses in subjects ranging from interpersonal behavior to engineering and scientific report writing to computer documentation and the development of technical manuals. With the help of an advisor, each student works out a course of study appropriate to his or…

This guide for starting a school garden is Book One in Project Life Lab's (Santa Cruz, California) three-part curriculum for a garden-based science and nutrition program for grades 2-6. The curriculum is designed for use as an integrated program, but the books can be used independently. It is suggested that the use of student journals can greatly…

Arranged into seven parts, this document provides a variety of games and activities, bulletin board ideas, overhead transparencies, student handouts, and learning station ideas to help reinforce basic social studies skills in the intermediate grades. In part 1, students learn about timelines, first constructing their own life timeline, then a…

The seventh in a series dealing with intercultural communication, this volume is organized around the theme of theorizing in intercultural communication. Papers in the introductory section of the book discuss theory building, cultural assumptions of East and West, and an overview of theorizing in intercultural communication. The second section…

The author presents predictions concerning the major trends of education in the 1980's. He discusses financial matters, the relationships between the interests of society and those of educators, and the relationship of education to society. This paper was presented at a European conference on mathematics education in the 1980's. (SD)

A summary of curricular innovations (career education, experiential education, competency-based education, interdisciplinary courses, independent study, calendar change) with discussion of reasons for resistance (poor quality, intellectual work involved, lack of concept of "curriculum"). (JT)

To clarify some dimensions of the ever-changing discussion of the ideal future and the best way of achieving it, the author describes a "contrast" institution, the Inter-University Center of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, whose four-week courses feature high-intensity eclecticism, dialectics of intellectual contradictions,…

This article presents examples of science units which have become successful multidisciplinary projects. Included are a protect your environment campaign and hunger day. Pre- and in-service courses, file of references, and resource people are suggested as being helpful in structuring interdisciplinary activities. Ideas and sources for projects are…

The development and structure of the comprehensive Low Vision Service of the New York Association for the Blind are used as the basis for discussing both positive and negative features of agency-based low vision clinics for the partially sighted. (LH)

Bergen Community College (New Jersey) and CBS are planning a new TV course to begin this May. Entitled "Science and Society: A Humanistic View," it will explore the impact of science and technology on man's destiny. This article traces the steps taken to develop this series and discusses program costs. (DC)