Curriculum building is a creative exercise that considers learning needs and contexts, seeks integrative perspectives, and offers opportunities for professional interaction. A five-stage approach to curriculum building includes assessment/validation, mapping, deconstruction, reconstruction, and completion/negotiation/approval/implementation. (SK)

Discusses a philosophy from which biological engineering curriculums can emerge. Discusses competencies, basic engineering and biological concepts, common courses, interfacing between engineers and biologists, and employment. Contains 28 references. (JRH)

Remarks adapted from the Presidential Address at the 74th Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in April 1996 charge educators with believing that every student can learn mathematics, every teacher must have adequate support and professional development opportunities, and every parent must have a vested interest in…

Data collection and analysis is often missing from the new curriculum reform textbooks. This article gives directions for data collection and data analysis for the Stroop Test and for a human-chain wrist experiment. (AIM)

Explains why technology courses should expose students to advanced composites. Addresses such concerns as cost and health, safety, and environmental issues. (SK)

There is a need to develop acceptable methods of inquiry that can be the focal point for connecting the technical components of the curriculum with related mental processes The mental processes integral to the work of a technologist are defining the problem, analyzing, computing, measuring, questioning/hypothesizing, constructing models, testing,…

Draws on articles in this special issue to find implications for educators of developments in popular culture, cultural globalization, and electronic images. Addresses questions concerning the reproduction of culture, identity, and community within contemporary educational debates. (Contains 48 references.) (Author/SK)

Analyzes the context in which professional career counseling in the U.S. exists at the beginning of the 21st century and makes recommendations to enhance the growth and development of the profession. Issues addresses include developing curricula, training career counselors, and broadening the focus of career decision making to include work…

Studied 44 academic departments judged by provosts to be engaged in effective curriculum planning to identify practices of continuous curriculum planning. Identifies 4 criteria and 20 indicators for assessing continuous program planning in a department. (SLD)

The authors describe the REACH Beyond Tolerance program, a schoolwide model for teaching children tolerance, and they argue that most current school curricula do not prepare students to operate effectively within an ethnically and culturally diverse world. (Contains 27 references and 1 appendix.) (Author)

Provides an account of the steps taken by a school district in forming a cohesive science curriculum that embodies a standards-based approach. (DDR)

Examines who learning technologists are, what they do, and how they do it, based on interviews with practicing learning technologists. Highlights include working with academics on sustained curriculum development activities; staff development; descriptions of roles; collaboration as pedagogy; and a theoretical model of learning technologists'…

Describes the design and advocacy of the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz and Contemplative Studies curriculum at the University of Michigan School of Music. Considers issues, such as the structure of the curriculum, the reconciliation of contemplative studies and conventional notions of academic rigor, avoidance of possible conflicts between church…

Explores the relationship between knowledge use and curriculum-change management with respect to technical dynamics, political dynamics, and cultural dynamics. The conceptual framework is explained, and results indicate that the political dynamics of the implementation process stand out as being an important correlate of knowledge use. (Author/LRW)

Suggests the model and techniques of action research can easily be integrated into the technical education curriculum. Notes the educator can teach the process as a separate unit within the program or in combination with a specific subject. (JOW)