This article reviews current scholarship about how to promote change in instructional practices used in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. The review is based on 191 conceptual and empirical journal articles published between 1995 and 2008. Four broad categories of change strategies were developed to…

Identifies a number of possible epistemological perspectives that can be taken on the changing nature of curricular knowledge in science and considers some of the normative characteristics of each. The varieties of knowledge and value perspectives associated with each inform teachers and students how they are expected to think about the subject.…

This paper discusses how social studies can best prepare enlightened citizens for the 21st century by centering the curriculum around ethics. The first part of the paper traces the history of the social studies from the Colonial period, when no uniformity existed in scope, sequences, and materials, up to the present period, in which there is…

Discusses resources for initiating culturally pluralistic perspectives in English classrooms, and for using multiethnic materials in the English curriculum. (JT)