Examines how participants in trade union courses can effectively influence their learning experience through discussion, consultation, and negotiation with the instructor while the training activity is in progress. (JOW)

The Applied Communication curriculum addresses skills students will need as adults and offers the best means for imparting them. Students acquire relevant skills and enhanced self-esteem; teachers take on an exciting new role as facilitator or coach. (Author/JOW)

Notes Allan Bloom's attack on feminists and suggests it is part of a neoconservative reaction to a groundswell of educational reform that is already under way. Discusses the contributions that feminist scholarship is making to curriculum reform, particularly with respect to anthropology. (EVL)

Explores the rediscovery of the social and civic values of general (or common) education in current reform movements. Discusses the historical experience English educators have had with common education themes. Suggests ways that the connection between English education and general education could be strengthened. (CJS)

Describes how the spiral curriculum, which introduces theater in elementary school, provides a basis for mastery teaching. Provides ideas for curriculum development, management, facilities, equipment, and costuming for the elementary, junior high, and high school programs. (PRA)

To develop an interdisciplinary curriculum, a district needs a field-tested action plan. This curriculum mapping plan's four phases--conducting internal and external action research, developing a proposal, implementing and monitoring a pilot unit, and adopting the program--can be accomplished over a three-year period. Procedures are described in…

A Virginia school district has developed a curriculum of school bus safety objectives for each grade level (K-6). Produced as a complete package, the curriculum contains a lesson plan, expected outcomes, a listing of instructional aids, defined activities, and required student materials. Lists bus safety rules that are taught and those posted on…

Presents information on the economics of diversity from an individual and a business point of view. Suggests appropriate units in which to integrate diversity training in the basic business/economics curriculum. (Author)

According to a North Carolina survey, principals believe that all marketing graduates should be computer literate and that marketing courses are an effective way to integrate academic and vocational education. They feel that marketing teachers need to stay abreast of the business world and are interested in articulation, especially tech prep. (JOW)

A comparison of results of two studies regarding the actual practice of clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners revealed a shared core of advanced practice competencies as well as distinct differences between practice roles. (JOW)

Responses from 84 of 140 nurse-practitioner program directors indicated greatest dissatisfaction with curricular areas of information systems and business management; most important curriculum topics were primary care, prevention, and patient relationships; and barriers to curriculum change included an already-crowded curriculum and limited…

"Why Teach Robotics?" (Waddell) suggests that the United States lags behind Europe and Japan in use of robotics in industry and teaching. "Creating a Course in Mobile Robotics" (Doty) outlines course elements of the Intelligent Machines Design Lab. (SK)

The themes for a community-based nursing curriculum in a Hawaii project emerged from focus groups with multisectoral representation. Although the method was highly resource-intensive, it generated rich data and kept the voices and intentions of participants at the forefront. (SK)

Uses Monty Python's 1970s comical vignette, "The Spanish Inquisition Sketch," as a metaphor for the process educators experience as they encounter each new curriculum-reform effort. (SR)

Developers of multidisciplinary international-business curricula should consider the following trends: (1) geographic, historic, economic, cultural, and political influences on business; (2) influence of cultural factors on organizational behavior and management style; (3) technology for international business transactions; (4) the global monetary…