Examines the curricular change process, presenting results of an ethnographic study of an elementary school moving from a teacher-directed curriculum toward a textbook-based, standardized curriculum. Focuses on students' (negative) reactions to changes. Educators must question any curriculum that limits teachers' opportunities to make coursework…

Curriculum change is usually haphazard and externally motivated. (JH)

Argues against the value of Ralph Tyler's rationale for curriculum development and presents an alternative approach that emphasizes learner participation. (JG)

The nature of distance education is to shift the locus of curriculum control toward the institution and its staff and away from the students. This imposes a responsibility on the institution to examine and evaluate the values and assumptions underlying the decision-making and the implications of the patterns of control that emerge. (Author/MSE)

This paper addresses how educators can encourage elementary-age children to develop critical thinking skills and creativity while also meeting educational standards and maintaining learning goals. The paper notes that a comprehensive curriculum: (1) honors the role of all participantsteachers, children, and parents; (2) engages children in…

Individualized instruction, as distinguished from self-pacing, is defined as providing a different instructional system for each individual. Necessary steps leading to this goal are outlined. (RM)

Considers the imbalance of responsibilities shared by faculty and students at a learning institution. (RK)

A legal educator's account (HE) of an attempt to introduce feminism into a legal research and writing course is criticized for its portrayal of the students as inexperienced know-nothings and the instructor as knowledge-holder, his use of women's endorsements for legitimacy, and his depiction of feminist students as uncooperative. (MSE)

An action-theory framework is used to systematically analyze the educational literature about student involvement in learning. Action is self-directed and arises from internal stimuli. In contrast, behavior is other directed and responds to external stimuli. The review focuses on the involvement of secondary learners in curricular, rather than…

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

This 24-minute videotape explores learning and teaching in classrooms where technology has provided an opportunity for change. In the videotape, actual classroom scenes show new roles and relationships for both students and teachers. Educators reflect on the rewards and challenges of a process that has led to fundamental shifts in classroom…

The development of a music curriculum for students at all levels is discussed. (CK)

Explores the connection between U.S. college students' increased career orientation and the growth of geographic information systems (GIS) and experiential education in the curricula of U.S. geography programs. Maintains that the discipline should not focus only on the technical aspects of geography but beware also of neglecting the general…