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Download full textSociety for Health and Human Values, Philadelphia, PA. – 1972
This document reports on the second session held by the Society for Health and Human Values. The aim of the meeting is to concentrate on specific measures for achieving a human-values orientation within the varied settings of medical education. Specifically, the following questions are raised: Why human values studies in medical education? How are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Health, Higher Education, Humanism
Community Coll. General Education Association, Utica, NY. – 1984
These four presentations to the 1983 Community College General Education Association conference address the theme, "Toward a New General Education: Work, Self, and Society." First, "General Education and Work: The Next Decade," by Philip M. Piaker, recounts efforts begun at Harpur College in the late 1940's to revise the general education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
Bean, Rita, Ed.; And Others – 1977
This publication includes five papers that were presented at a language communications conference that emphasized integrating the language arts at elementary and secondary school levels. Walter Loban stresses the importance of classroom language activities that involve children in genuine purposes and that link language to thinking. Charles R.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Conferences, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1991
This report stems from a meeting of representatives of countries in the Asia Pacific region concerned with the development of strategies for strengthening content relating to humanistic, ethical, and cultural values in formal and non-formal education. The following countries were represented: Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cultural Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. – 1981
The following papers on foreign language curriculum development for the 1980s are included: (1) "Foreign Language and the Humanistic Tradition: The Relationship to the Coming Decade," by Claire Gaudiani; (2) "Practical Implications of New Trends and Directions," by Wilga Rivers; (3) "Directions in Foreign Language Curriculum Development," by H. H.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education, Curriculum Development, Humanistic Education
PDF pending restorationNijhof, W. J., Ed. – 1990
This report presents essays from a symposium held in the Netherlands in 1986 whose purpose was to study the theme: values in higher education. The symposium addressed the issue of cultural continuity and the importance of awareness of how higher education is developing and cultural values are maintained. Among the symposium's presentations are the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Competency Based Education, Conferences, Cultural Pluralism
Schmeltekopf, Donald D., Ed.; Rassweiler, Anne D., Ed. – Review and Proceedings of the Community College Humanities Association, 1982
Designed as a forum for views on issues concerning the humanities in two-year colleges, this journal begins with "A Call for Common Learning," in which Ernest Boyer discusses the goals of education and outlines six themes which students should study to understand themselves, their society, and the world in which they live. Responding to…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Core Curriculum
Jelinek, James John, Ed. – 1979
This collection of conference presentations includes "The Curriculum Field--A View" by Alice Miel, "The State of the Curriculum: Frills, Fads, and Alternatives" by Robert S. Zais, "Lifelong Learning: Significance for Curriculum Development" by Norman V. Overly, "Education of the Gifted and Talented: A Look Around…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adult Development, Basic Skills, Capitalism
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1976
Proceedings from a Unesco conference on international education are presented. Cross-cultural comparisons among Unesco countries are offered and methods of implementation of Unesco recommendations concerning peace education and human rights are suggested. The report is presented in seven sections: (1) general observations on the Unesco…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Conference Reports
