Laboratory-based curriculum planning often takes too long to be of use to teachers. The author suggests, however, that the New Zealand International Society for Education through Art (INSEA) has created a balance between curriculum development as seen from the classroom teacher's view and that of the educational researcher. (RK)

It is suggested that career counseling curricula, developed and taught by counselors, may effectively meet the needs of women reentering college. Specific components for the development of curricula are discussed. (Author)

Eight curricular considerations are put forth relevant to teacher renewal strategies. (MM)

The authors describe their involvement in the development of an industry-sponsored energy education program in Illinois. (Author)

Approaches curricular issues in the framework of critical theory and attempts to move through curriculum critique to a demonstration of what curriculum practice is implied by a critical framework. (Author/MLF)

Discussed is the multifaceted, comprehensive training of teachers, administrators, and other educators to meet the challenge of multidimensionally gifted students, focusing on the efforts in this area by the National/State Leadership Training Institute on the Gifted and Talented (DLS)

Curriculum decisions should be made with awareness of the gains already made, commitment to assessment of the conditions that exist and the work undone, sensitivity to the emerging needs of the students and the community, and with thorough knowledge of how change best occurs in schools. (Author/IRT)

Argues that too much emphasis is currently being placed on vertical analyses of course content, aggravated by the fragmentation of content into numerous objectives stated as learning outcomes. The approach proposed is to focus upon the relationships between major coordinate course elements, and the use of task-based objectives to enable students…

A curriculum model for grades K-5 presently in use in the state of Florida is described. Criteria for the program, modular format, content, adaptability, evaluation, and cost are examined. (MJB)

This is the first in a series of information papers that are intended to supply information on matters of general importance to the educational system. It focuses on the complex committee structure for curriculum development in Scotland beginning in 1965 and outlines its growth up to the present. (Editor/RK)

A scope and sequence chart is presented for elementary and secondary education concerning aging and death, as well as (1) suggestions for integrating gerontology issues into commonly taught subjects, (2) selected issues for gerontology studies, and (3) resources for gerontology curriculum development. (MJB)

"My impression is that their proposals come at this time because they recognize that youngsters are already doing politics, but fear they are doing the wrong politics". Assesses the discussion document on political education written by two HMIs (Her Majesty's Inspectors). (Editor/RK)

Suggestions are given for people working on a summer curriculum writing team. (SK)

Examines the difficulty which the limited scope of Mary Louise Segeul's history, contained in The Curriculum Field: Its Formative Years, poses for an understanding of the development of the curriculum field and suggests the outlines of a more adequate curriculum history. (Author/RK)

Continuous attention must be paid to law as a part of society and to the development of new curriculum materials and instructional practices if law-related education is to avoid becoming only a curiosity of 1970's curriculum history. (MJB)