Explores current epistemological inquiries about knowledge, certainty; and the legitimacy of social contexts within debates over claims to knowledge. Considers their relevance for widespread transformations in education, especially in the areas of curriculum and teacher education. (Author/LHW)

Analyzes the importance of a critical pedagogy by examining its potentially transformative relations with the sphere of popular culture. The pedagogical relevance of popular culture is discussed. The notion of critical pedagogy as a form of cultural politics should be further developed. (Author/BJV)

To encourage civic virtue through civic education, the best means is through firsthand study of the nation's founding documents, which incorporate a philosophical teaching concerning human nature and civil society that is the antithesis of Marxist teaching. Suggestions are made for a curriculum that explains equality of opportunity. (SLD)

American educators first turned to behaviorism and the forerunner of systems theory to make education an instrument of social control for the preservation of cultural homogeneity. Rather than offering "backward" or "learning disabled" children increased educational opportunities, these procedures relegated them to a subordinate place in American…

Outlines a new direction for graduate study in curriculum. Sees curriculum theory as a form of social theory, thus relating curriculum discourse to knowledge and social practices that produce and legitimize particular forms of social life. Suggests ways a new program might be constructed and discusses the obstacles it would face. (Author/RDN)

Liberal Arts undergraduates at the University of Minnesota must complete at least two courses which focus primarily on Blacks, American Indians, Asian Americans, and/or Chicanos. The consideration that went into shaping and adopting this controversial requirement are recounted and analyzed. (Author/VM)

Reflects on the author's experiences teaching a course on great documents in American history to high school students, concentrating on teaching the Declaration of Independence and the "Federalist Papers." Countering the students' tendencies toward superficial reading and encouraging deep analysis are the teacher's primary goals. (SLD)

Reviews the past 50 years of mathematics education in the United States and examines past and present reforms. The mathematics education community is trying to develop a vision of mathematics that will serve in the next century. Current curriculum materials based on these reforms present students with relevant problems to solve and require…

Explores the uses of technology, computers in particular, to teach mathematics. Examples are given of the ways technology can help students gather data and test, modify, and reject or accept conjectures as they think about mathematical concepts. Article asserts a restructuring of the mathematics curriculum is necessary to bring this about. (SLD)

Holds that problems of implementation have resulted in the failure of large-scale intervention efforts to deal with cognitive deficits. Emphasizes technological, political, and cultural perspectives in innovation. Examines related models and programs in the United States and developing countries and shows that minimal requirements for their…

Discusses the role of language development in educational achievement and the implications of this role for curriculum development. Children's preschool knowledge of language and its development in early school years is discussed. How their language experiences in school might enhance their language development also is outlined. Highlighted are…

Recalls a previous attempt, via the Committee of Ten, to set national academic standards in American high schools 100 years earlier, describes the effort's defeat, and explains how the objections raised then are much like the ones being raised today. The author argues that the need for national academic standards is more urgent now than ever…

The computer has a role in the feminist reform of curriculum and instruction in science and mathematics instruction if technology is used to move away from didactic linear presentations of mere facts. Computers have the potential to open science and mathematics to more women and to more ideas. (SLD)

Drawing on experiences of a teacher who has taught secondary school ethics courses, this article argues that every school system should integrate ethics into all subject disciplines and present a course in ethics, perhaps as early as seventh or eighth grade. Such a course is described. (SLD)

Examines implications of vocational education programs through investigations of Ontario education work experience programs. Argues that work programs provide opportunities for a critical counter-hegemonic pedagogy and the ethnographic investigations of such programs are valuable as a source of both a theoretical analysis of schooling and an…