This book is developed to help teach curriculum through the use of movement and dance, while giving students a chance to use their creative problem-solving skills. The text describes a step-by-step process through which instructor and students can learn to transform academic concepts into actions and dances. Theoretical information is also…

Continuing education (CE) units are a diverse blend of philosophical and pedagogical approaches, personal aptitudes, and professional knowledge and skills. The Continuing Education Leadership Matrix model is presented as a conceptual framework for understanding and managing CE practice. The model is useful to leaders and managers working within CE…

This essay intends to examine the moral character of learning and teaching and the concomitant implications for educational leaders. With the academic curriculum in mind, I ask the basic question: why should young people learn the standard academic curriculum that schools confront them with? Although the expected answer might be, in the present…

Maintains that preschool programs should emphasize the child's development and learning potentials by focusing on the child's intrinsic interests and not on academically oriented, subject-centered learning and teaching. (BB)

The authors report on a study of 120 secondary schools and 893 related classrooms that compared instructional approaches used in vocational and nonvocational classes. Results suggest that vocational classes offer alternative approaches to instruction that differ from those employed in academic settings. (Author/CH)

This packet contains 10 integrated academic and vocational education lesson plans developed by teams of high school teachers in Virginia. Six of the lesson plans were developed through collaborations of vocational and academic teachers. The other four, developed by teams of academic teachers, have strong vocational applications. The lesson plans…

To ensure that cooperative education is academically sound, a unique learning methodology has been developed. Students are required to express insights from the cooperative experience which illuminate, reinterpret, or extend classroom learning. (JOW)

A study described characteristics of education for the professions and used these characteristics to assess the course syllabi for nearly 40 public personnel administration courses. Found that most of these courses lack the requirements for courses in professional education. Suggestions for instructors of public personnel administration were made.…

Presents a theoretical description of public relations for scholars, practitioners, and students. Suggests it is useful to view public relations as an area of study. Describes how the public relations process has applications in research and theory development, pedagogy, and practice. (MS)

This paper is designed to help educators to incorporate the competencies developed by the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) into their curricula. (SCANS is a commission composed of representatives of education, business, labor, and state government established in 1990 to define a common core of skills that constitute job…

Mrs. Barbara A. Sizemore, superintendent of the Washington D. C. school system, spoke at the New Orleans American Vocational Association (AVA) Convention. She expressed viewpoints on necessary student skills, occupational training, teaching methods, vocational/academic debate, and competency-based education. (EA)

Since communication education in nonacademic settings has emerged as an alternative career opportunity for a number of communication graduates, it is important that there be an understanding of the differences between teaching in academic and nonacademic settings. The major philosophical differences center on three issues: the first involves the…

After introducing the scientific method, nonscience students are given a two-part assignment: writing a research proposal and conducting the proposed research. Eight examples of student research projects are provided, including general comments about and student evaluations of the research project assignment. (JN)