A comprehensive account of the origin and development of the basic contributions to the field of language instruction is thematically developed in this text. Major sections treat: (1) methodology, including the teaching of meaning, grammar, and pronunciation; (2) linguistic habit formation concerning speech, reading, and writing; (3) curriculum…

The Anthropology Curriculum Study Project (ACSP) has developed a research model which is to be used to provide data for effective implementation of the ACSP course, "Patterns in Human History". The common "means-ends" model for research, which relies on one-way effects, is described and rejected in favor of an interactive,…

Readings in this book have been selected to show how creativity and imagination can be the central focus in a literature and language arts curriculum for the elementary grades. Selections are divided into four parts, each with a different emphasis. Part 1 contains three articles which trace the development of imaginative literature and stress the…

The 59 publications, identified through a search of Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) publications and non-ERIC publications, were reviewed and analyzed to identify the major findings, promising developments, strategies, and methodological strengths and weaknesses which exist in curriculums designed for training dental assistants,…

One of 6 state reports generated by the Regional Curriculum Project (funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act), the document describes 4 specific projects implemented through the Alabama State Superintendent's Office beginning in 1966. All 4 projects were designed to improve instructional leadership by defining the role(s) of the…

This volume contains a comprehensive collection of chapters which have been organized around the critical decision-making areas of curriculum development or reform. The critical areas discussed are: the conceptual structure or framework; curriculum organization (i.e. sequential approach, interdisciplinary approach); behavioral objectives; program…

The third volume of this 4-volume report contains the last two speeches, on educational philosophy and the role of reason in society, from the Colloquium on the Culture of Schools held at the New School for Social Research (preceding speeches are in Vol. II, SP 003 901), reports on conferences on the culture of schools held in Pittsburgh and…

This booklet was produced to answer Pennsylvania social studies teachers' questions about implementing the statutory curriculum changes of 1968 and 1969. The new state regulations require integrating "major contributions made by Negroes and other racial and ethnic groups" into all courses of United States and Pennsylvania history in…

This thesis attempts to analyze one particular aspect of the development activities of some fifty social studies projects, namely, the role of political science and its materials within the projects. The paper is divided into four chapters. The first seeks to give a brief analysis of the curriculum development projects in recent years in terms of:…

Clerical SOLO (Sector of Learning Opportunity), a program attempting individualized learning of concepts, skills, and attitudes traditionally taught in office practice and machines, was implemented during the 1969-70 school year by the Business Education Department of Rainier Beach High School. The Clerical SOLO curriculum model has accomplished…

The purposes of the Institute--to heighten the self concept and achievement of Negro youth, and to improve school-community relations in racial ghettos--are discussed in an introduction, along with the rationale, philosophical orientations, and objectives. Additional preliminary information includes a discussion of the required planning and…

The report gives the background on the association of these states in an international education effort directed at Central American nations. The basic objectives of the project are: 1) to develop school-to-school projects in the United States and abroad involving 2 to 3 year exchange of teachers, pupils, curriculum materials, and ideas for…

A publication devoted to minorities in the curriculum provides several kinds of information. One section contains reports of courses and practices at all school levels in 38 schools throughout Massachusetts. The major part of the document consists of extensive notations of teaching resources--curriculum packages, media materials, textbooks, and…

The symposium presented at the 1969 American Educational Research Association meeting was concerned with program development for rural isolated school districts and the opportunities for research opened through this project for educational improvement. The papers from the symposium describe an on-going program which can have great influence in…

This progress report, issued by the Indiana University High School Curriculum Center in Government, attempts to make clear the Center's position on certain issues in social studies curriculum development and the rationale behind these positions. The paper's first section considers complaints about present government courses and examines existing…