Teacher, parent, student, and school ratings of terminal and instrumental values were compared. All subjects rated instrumental values higher than terminal values. (Author/AM)

To examine the relationship between society and curriculum, three research projects are analyzed. The first project, Beauchamp and Beauchamp (1967), which attempts to answer the question of how a curriculum comes to be what it is, examined the likenesses and differences in curriculum engineering practices among selected European countries. The…

A sample of curriculum projects representing the first generation of new curricula in Israel was analyzed, using an instrument developed to determine the implicit or explicit message regarding the teacher's role in curriculum development and use. Curriculum development in Israel is moving from a centralized approach to greater involvement of…

Israeli parents and high school students and teachers attach more importance to instrumental values (idealized modes of conduct such as achievement and decency) than to terminal values (human ideals such as freedom and Jewish/Arab consciousness). They believe that instrumental values are cultivated in schools to a greater extent than terminal…