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Watras, Joseph – Journal of Thought, 1980
The author worries that teacher educators will respond to the handicap mandate as they did to compensatory/multicultural education--by developing courses about specific groups. Such courses may squeeze out the foundations which, by promoting "educational imagination" and concern for human values, really equip teachers to deal with special needs.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Foundations of Education
Nechaev, N.; Usov, V. – Soviet Education, 1991
Warns against a tendency to command Soviet educational reform from above without thought of practical results. Criticizes proceeding before priorities have been set or put into practice, and ignoring the need for a vehicle of reform, material, and labor resources. Urges the humanization of architectural education through study of art, the…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Architectural Education, Art Appreciation, Curriculum Development
Crane, Terese A. – 1986
All research on curriculum development incorporates implicit assumptions about the nature of persons and the nature of learning. These assumptions fall into two major categories: (1) psychological assumptions, based on empirical descriptions; and (2) logical (conceptual) assumptions, which give explanatory accounts of meaning. Most curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Problems, Educational Change
Zais, Robert S. – 1979
Four broad questions are addressed in this consideration of foreign language study in the total school setting. The first part deals with the broad perspective that is needed in order to integrate the educational enterprise and to form a community of educators each with a special contribution to make. Some considerations relevant to this question…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development