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Peer reviewedOrtiz, Ellen; Kourilsky, Marilyn – Social Studies Review, 1985
In the Mini-Society program intermediate grade students create their own microcosmic version of an adult economy. This study showed that in addition to increasing students' economic understanding, Mini-Society also improves the students' mathematical reasoning. (RM)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Economics Education
Peer reviewedTyler, Ken – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1992
Examines the impact at the primary level of efforts to introduce a national curriculum in Great Britain. Contends that the biggest obstacle is confusion about the definition and implementation of an integrated curriculum approach. Warns that effective cross-curricular programs already in operation may be replaced with highly differentiated and…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
Download full textDisinger, John F., Comp. – 1987
Charting the curricular institutionalization of environmental education, particularly as it seeks to establish an appropriate niche in the K-12 curriculum, was the focus of a recent symposium held at the annual conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education in October, 1987. Contained in this document are the papers…
Descriptors: Conferences, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems, Curriculum Research
Gardella, Ron – Clearing, 1988
Includes an environmental education curriculum assessment instrument designed to determine how well curriculum materials reflect some accepted goals of environmental education. (TW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Ecology, Educational Assessment
Cantrell, Diane C. – 1987
Designed for elementary and secondary teachers, Project WILD is an interdisciplinary, supplementary environmental education program which emphasizes wildlife. This study examines the process of curriculum implementation as exemplified by Project WILD in Ohio by tracing its implementation from the national level to the use of instructional…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education
Hungerford, Harold R.; Peyton, Robert Ben – 1986
In 1980, the International Environmental Education Program of UNESCO published Strategies for Developing an Environmental Education Curriculum, to be used as a working document for a series of regional workshops. This publication is a revision of the 1980 document and is intended to provide an update for curriculum developers in environmental…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research
Kelleher, Ann – 1996
The case studies presented in this volume offer comparative examples of undergraduate international education innovations in a wide variety of categories: curriculum, study abroad, community outreach, faculty development, and international students. The studies were conducted in the mid-1990s, and programs had to meet several criteria: they had to…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
