Reforming schooling to enable engagement and success for those typically marginalised and failed by schools is a necessary task for educational researchers and activists concerned with injustice. However, it is a difficult pursuit, with a long history of failed attempts. This paper outlines the rationale of an Australian partnership research…

The present article extends Basil Bernstein's theorisation of "discourses" and "knowledge structures" to explore the potential of educational knowledge structures to enable or constrain cumulative learning, where students can transfer knowledge across contexts and build knowledge over time. It offers a means of overcoming…

A list of African languages in which lectures have been given at Leiden were provided and the problems of teaching African linguistics with a small faculty were discussed. (Author/RK)

A good studio art program depends on a well-defined sequential curriculum, enough art materials to fit a diversity of talent, adequate time for instruction, sufficient space and support for curriculum development and innovation, informed administrators, and well-qualified, enthusiastic instructors. (Author)

Never a dull day at Manhattan's New School, long a nerve center of the adult-education movement. (Editor)

Author argued for a more central role in the curriculum for design education. (Editor/RK)

Describes several components of curriculum structure that will utilize the talents, life styles and value orientations of culturally different students. Includes some concrete suggestions on how to incorporate these suggestions in a university setting. (Author/HMV)

This article advocates adapting sex education courses to the specific needs of students in each class. (Editor)

This paper promotes an undergraduate course that would discuss the great ideas of Plato, St. Paul, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Jean Paul Sartre, B. F. Skinner, and Konrad Lorenz. This course would help students understand human values and behaviors while focusing on historical, world, and national problems. Tentative solutions would then be…

A liberal arts education, combined with applied courses available at police academies, will contribute to the professionalization of criminal justice officers. (AG)

A curriculum is suggested which integrates the teaching of a variety of general skills and the application of skills in the world of work. (Author/KM)

It was a crude structure, chopped out of the wilderness, but it exemplified for higher education the Spirit of '76. (Editor)

Convinced that most educators are shortsighted in planning curriculum design, these writers take the proverbial bull by the horns and present the criteria they feel are necessary for realistic program planning. (Editor)

This bulletin provides a foreword to the Program of Studies series published by the Montgomery County, Maryland Public Schools. This series outlines the unified curriculum for students from kindergarten through high school. A statement of educational goals of the system and a discussion of educational standards and requirements for graduation from…

The speaker discusses two methods of teaching. He describes the data transmission system with its use of technology (computer assistance, audio-tutoring, etc.) as merely an updating of the traditional attempt by the teacher to impart a body of subject matter and by the student to absorb and store it for future retrieval. Opposed to this…