As new times become hard times, there may be little time for multimodality in school unless educators confront the accountability culture. This commentary reviews the arguments for multimodal transformations of school literacy curricula and explores the potential of reflective talk about multimodal meaning-making as an assessment practice. Talking…

Describes a unit on Sir John Franklin's arctic expedition in order to examine teachers' motivations for engaging in a negotiated, integrating curriculum. Discusses the benefits for learners and the message of caring that results. (SR)

In nursing education, the curricular focus is shifting from objectives, outcomes, and evaluation to reflection, intuition, and praxis. Active learning, requiring a higher level of maturity, emphasizes constructing new knowledge and meaning, empowering students to take charge of their experience. (SK)

Exploring the concept of a "permeable" curriculum, this paper provides concrete examples of the social and cultural challenges of a curriculum that allows for the interplay between teachers' and children's language and experiences. The paper uses a recent study in an urban primary school to provide an illustration of the diverse kinds of…

Suggests that teacher education is historically grounded in a 19th century conception of education, influenced by social Darwinism and scientific determinism. Looks at the benefits of incorporating emancipatory pedagogy in teacher education programs, through the study of such master teachers as Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Cynthia Brown, and Charles…

A response to a 1978 article (EC 632 334) on the academically gifted discusses key points in relation to today's field. These include programming options, continuing beliefs that gifted students don't require special help, uses and misuses of ability identification instruments, the important role of the classroom teacher, and the need for…

Interviews Eleanor Duckworth, author of "The Having of Wonderful Ideas," concerning her thoughts on teaching and learning. A former student of Piaget, Duckworth taught in the Elementary Science Study and eventually became a teacher educator. She emphasizes the importance of starting from teachers' knowledge and understanding how children…

Argues that, because intelligence is discovered, developed, and constructed, middle-school curriculum and teaching must change to embrace this cognitive revolution. Advocates that middle-school social-studies teachers redirect the rationale and focus of the curriculum to promote thinking, self-direction, making choices, solving problems and…

Proposes an alternative pedagogy and curriculum to one implied by the text, "Ways of Reading," which provides a set of difficult, theoretical texts for writing classes. Suggests that teachers should learn something of the student's world as the student learns of the teacher's. (TB)

Examines negotiated curriculum and the teacher's framing questions when helping students design curriculum. Offers examples from a multiage classroom of seven- to nine-year-old students. (SR)

Explores the possibility of collaborative research undertaken by professors in conjunction with their undergraduate students. Provides various institutional strategies by which student-faculty collaborative research might be encouraged. (HB)

A legal educator's account (HE) of an attempt to introduce feminism into a legal research and writing course is criticized for its portrayal of the students as inexperienced know-nothings and the instructor as knowledge-holder, his use of women's endorsements for legitimacy, and his depiction of feminist students as uncooperative. (MSE)

In this article, Eric Freedman examines the extent to which critical pedagogy can be considered a democratic form of education. Comparing Paulo Freire's notion of dialogue to Jurgen Habermas's "ideal speech situation," Freedman argues that such dialogue cannot realistically occur in educational situations where the teacher remains in an…

Provides brief portraits of former students to illustrate what they taught about curriculum. (FL)

This document discusses the role of the guidance counselor in helping with the academic achievement of students. One way to do this is to instruct teachers and principals in some of the basic tenets from educational psychology that can help students feel more positive about themselves. Being unable to meet high curricular standards often leads to…