Task lists created by private companies, consortia, state departments, and universities have caused difficulty for occupational instructors. A careful analysis of task structure shows a continuous hierarchy in cumulative learning, wherein each task becomes part of a whole. A task charting system can improve the efficiency of instruction. (SK)

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)

Often, implementation has not been considered a crucial stage in the curriculum planning process. Successful curriculum implementation, regardless of its design, rests upon delineating at the outset of the development process the stages necessary for implementation. (Author)

When serving special needs children under the age of 24 months, two divergent curricular approaches should be fused: a narrow curriculum focusing educational stimulation on the area of risk or disability, and a broad curriculum supporting the child's general humanity by making available a comprehensive array of experiences. (Author/JDD)

Discusses transformatory change in consciousness and the limitations of modern Western curricula. Considers hierarchicality, participating consciousness, a global systemic view, temporal balance, and reflexive awareness as aspects of a nonreductionist paradigm. Suggests that the rationalism now characterizing curriculum discourse inhibits a world…

Examines various permutations of the concept of "core curriculum" and then assesses the crucial planning, design, and development tasks in relation to the core curriculum. (TE)

Articles on literary canon include: "Educational Anomie" (Stephen W. White); "Why Western Civilization?" (William J. Bennett); "Peace Plan for Canon Wars" (Gerald Graff, William E. Cain); "Canons, Cultural Literacy, and Core Curriculum" (Lynne V. Cheney); "Canon Busting: Basic Issues" (Stanley…

Reasons for the current inattention in law schools to appellate litigation and its effects on appellate courts and the performance of attorneys appearing in them are explored, and curricular changes designed to provide law students with an education for appellate litigation comparable to that provided for trial litigation are proposed. (MSE)

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…

Emphasizing factual knowledge undermines educators' attempts to engage students in meaningful activities. Students involved in process work are more deeply engaged, retain more, and perform better on achievement measures. Teaching methodology, types of knowledge, and school structure are intertwined. Methodology drives structure, and structure…

The University of Ottawa's occupational therapy program offers a community practice course that teaches students to identify biological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of communities; to be aware of community resources; and to prepare for roles as consultant, educator, planner, service provider, broker, and interdisciplinary…

Religious conservatives and political libertarians share a family-centered vision of home schooling. Conservatives' home-schooling plans are usually based on Christian ethics and feature a core group of subjects--reading, writing, mathematics, science, religious studies, and history. The author and his wife, both certified teachers and…

Proposes a technical education curriculum design that has a nontechnical foundation core grounded in liberal arts to promote understanding of human needs, problems, history, communication, and values; a technical foundation core; and a technical specialty. (SK)

The goal of multicultural education is to help kids function in their ethnic communities and the mainstream world. The broader aspects of multicultural education (pedagogical equity and prejudice reduction) apply to all subjects. Schools as public institutions should promote the common good and the overarching values of the nation-state. Diversity…

Offers techniques to elicit information from subject matter experts when developing instructional systems. (JOW)