A description of the present position of the FUSE organization relative to the development of unified science programs is discussed, including the related purposes and directions that characterize the newly established center. (DF)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a unified natural science course compared to the Time, Space, and Matter course for freshmen students at the University of Chicago High School. Student responses to individual test items were analyzed; this analysis allowed the pinpointing of…

Describes Unified Science Technology, an approach to technology education in which the application of science concepts (such as chemistry or physics) to technology is explored. (SK)

This chapter presents an innovative framework for a mechanical engineering program of study termed desegregated learning. The goal is not desegregation but rather to promote a higher level of learning and to look for opportunities where desegregating the learning environment yields optimal results with reasonable costs and complexity. (Contains 3…

To enhance student performance, prevent attrition, and build a learning community, two courses were linked together by requiring concurrent enrollment. "Writing Effectively," an upper-division composition course, was linked with "Abnormal Psychology," an upper-division clinical psychology course, requiring concurrent enrollment in both. In short,…

This article presents an innovative approach to diversity education. The approach is multidisciplinary, and it was developed by blending the expertise of anthropological research with the pedagogical skills developed by education specialists. To institutionalize this approach, a unique university-level collaboration occurred between students and…

This is the 1974-75 progress report of Project Open at Cox Landing Junior High School in Cabell County, West Virginia. The first chapter contains a description of the Project Open concept and is followed, in chapter two, by a statement of purpose which declares that the project was established to create a uniform program in the fine and practical…

The monographs published from 1938 through 1970 under the general title of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science are now published in two volumes (see also SE 012 544). The monographs attempt to discover the basic, unifying principles of science as a whole to facilitate the dovetailing of the special sciences, so that advances in one…

Reports on the Moline Project, a two-year unified chemistry and physics course for high-ability students. Parallel programs in physics were developed for the other students. These programs have succeeded in increasing student enrollment in physics from 4.6 percent of the student population in 1962 to 10.6 percent in 1969. (LC)

The authors explore the extent to which a mature professional development school (PDS) partnership at Kansas State University (KSU) helps link the disparate parts of the social studies education community. The authors initially identify and describe the divisions or "gulfs" that commonly plague social studies education, such as the gulfs…

This is the rough draft of a learning contract between faculty and students in the spring 1975 Unified Studies Program at Boston State College. Examples are given of the staff contract with the students and of the student contract with the staff. Students contract to do diagnostic and evaluative work, attend workshops and Unified Studies seminars,…

Team effort and learner-centered activity are emphasized in this description of the learning program at the Plantation Middle School, Broward County, Florida. Extensive use of media and materials characterizes the curriculum. (Author/KE)

Describes the objectives and content of a two-semester course in unified science for college students who are non-science majors. Student opinions regarding the course were assessed. A text, a set of self-instructional laboratories, and remedial units are being developed. Bibliography. (LC)

The reflections on interdisciplinarity cover several dimensions. One, among them, concerns the nature of what occurs between two disciplines. Does inter-disciplinarity relate to an intention, to a metatheory, to the object, or to a method? It is this ultimate space that we propose to study, supported by Reswebers (2000) proposition, putting the…