Describes a South Pacific social studies curriculum development project. Points out that educators must constantly examine the implicit connections between the intentions of schooling and assumptions in its sociocultural context. (JOW)

One state curriculum guide too many produced the Principal's Advisory Council on School Improvement (PACSI), a Huntington, New York, principal's "kitchen cabinet" to handle curriculum overflow. In two years, PACSI developed three solutions: grade level objectives and suggested time allocations; monthly curriculum calendars; and…

This reply to Reese's article takes exception to his view of the "common good," since no agreement on common values exists. The reply also rejects Reese's notion that public schools are the only way to promote the common good. (IAH)

Presents six areas--new goals, curriculum materials, teaching strategies, evaluation, teacher education, and implementing change--addressed in this special issue. Asserts that the weakness of schools in preparing students to observe, think, investigate, and take action has resulted in the need to focus on these areas. (MW)

Asserts that history teachers can make the study of history relevant to students by emphasizing the centrality of people in history. Examines ways to achieve cultural literacy while avoiding some of the inherent pitfalls. (NH)

Good planning is good management. Three separate but interrelated dimensions of planning are discussed: anticipating the future; establishing broad system-wide and/or institutional missions and goals; and establishing specific objectives, or actions, to be achieved by specific individuals and units of the institution. (MLW)

Education for mutual respect requires an intellectual component that involves distinguishing four levels of interaction between the process and content of culture, and an emotional component. Language teaching can benefit by exploiting its cultural dimension and should participate in the common task of education for a pluralistic mentality.…

Distinguishes between two views of writing: "writing" as composing and making meaning; and "writing down" as encoding and using literacy tools. Defines literacy as the ability to use oral and written language for the goal of self-awareness. Describes several ways to provide students with opportunities to develop literacy. (MM)

Promotes the concept of serious play and discusses its role in learning, from early grades to graduate level. Provides guidelines for integrating serious play across the curriculum and includes sample primary and intermediate grade curriculum charts. (ET)

This paper describes the relative importance attributed by teachers to the different objectives of environmental education in schools in the northern part of the Netherlands; and the constraints and the need for support when teachers want to pay more attention to the various objectives of environmental education. (LZ/Author)

This article focuses on reasons for using foreign language experience programs (FLEX) with middle school students. Specific sections provide a description of an interdisciplinary FLEX program and discuss the goals, objectives, and roots of exploratory programs; uses of the exploratory approach; a multidimensional curriculum; and a "grass…

Examines the influence that journalism has had in the life of Lisa Nunley. States that Nunley graduated with a full two-year journalism scholarship to a local college, and that Nunley knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life. Chronicles Nunley's rise in the high school newspaper ranks. Concludes with a statement of Nunley's future goals.…

Using a taxonomy of student motives and a framework of transition phases in residential experience, data from interviews with four adult students and questionnaire responses from others showed the following: residential adult students have individualized and instrumental motivations; communal life is seen as vital to the experience; and results…

An accounting school used a structured process to develop a tailored mission statement linked to specific, measurable goals and objectives at the department level. The mission statement is part of the departmental assessment process. (SK)

Discusses the aims of education and cultivating environmental awareness in education. Proposes that educators adopt the conceptual approaches of ecology and the broader model of environmental studies for application to education policy and practice. (Contains 24 references.) (MDH)