The planning, preparation, and delivery of learning experiences tend to be organized vertically, in accordance with schools' structure of curricular subjects and teaching departments, but pupils' experience of the curriculum is horizontal and serial. A rationale for utilizing a horizontal, across-the-curriculum model of support teaching is…

This paper reviews the literature on integration of home economics at the graduate level; presents a rationale for a core curriculum; describes objectives and delivery of the curriculum; and proposes research needs to evaluate approaches to training doctoral students in an integrated view of home economics. (JOW)

This paper describes the commonly found "knowledge delivery" education format and argues that work outside the academy and more in-depth academic training demand skills and competencies not developed by the "knowledge delivery" model. The knowledge curriculum education is characterized as lecture-type instruction, knowledge delivery and exposure,…

This document discusses policy and practice addressing the need for financial literacy education for older people in the United Kingdom. The discussion is based largely on the findings of survey and focus groups that were conducted to identify the difficulties older people encounter in dealing with different financial services and managing their…