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Jones, C. Jessie; Rikli, Roberta E. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1993
Provides a brief overview of the gerontology movement and looks at health, physical education, recreation, and dance (HPERD) curriculum development and professional preparation focusing on the implications for serving the growing older population, educating younger people for successful aging, and improving HPERD status within the field of…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Curriculum Development, Gerontology, Health Education

Dowd, James J. – Teaching Sociology, 1991
Discusses effects on graduate sociology education of trends emphasizing quantitative methods and the positivist tradition at the expense of social theory and interpretive sociology. Argues that failure to develop sociology's interpretive tradition has allowed the style and intellectual creativity of sociological work to suffer. Urges greater…
Descriptors: Creativity, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy, Graduate Study
Hooghoff, Hans – 1986
In 1982 the Netherlands National Institute for Curriculum Development (SLO), with the support of Parliament, devised the framework for the Development Education Project (EPOS). This project concerns a national development education network, which is to be supported for a new period, 1986 to 1991. EPOS is comprised of national organizations,…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Developed Nations
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005
Founded in 1943, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that represents 160,000 educators from more than 135 countries and 66 affiliates. Its members span the entire profession of educators-superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Curriculum Development, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change
Mondale, Walter F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
Presidential candidate Walter Mondale outlines his strategy for improving education. He proposes closing the skill gaps through the development of better curricula, upgrading teachers' skills, reduction of paperwork, and bolstering the teaching profession. (MD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Equal Education, Federal Aid

Sundberg, Marshall D.; And Others – Bioscience, 1992
Reassess the influence of the Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences (CUEBS) upon current undergraduate biology instruction, 20 years after making its findings public. Emphasizes the importance for the new generation of biology educators to reattempt the achievement of CUEBS goals despite past failures. (24 references)…
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment

Reid, H. Bruce – Bioscience, 1992
Argues, with exemplification, that what is relevant to the undergraduate biology curriculum, as well as what must be covered by that same curriculum, can both be systematically addressed by the process of outcomes assessment, thereby assuring appropriate program perspective as a desirable precursor to major curriculum revision. (nine references)…
Descriptors: Biology, College Outcomes Assessment, College Science, Curriculum Development
Gilmour, Joseph E.; Ammons, Jane C. – 1992
This proposal contains a plan to alter the curriculum at Georgia Institute of Technology for the following reasons: to educate its students in Total Quality Management (TQM) approaches and practice, to develop a major research initiative designed to understand what TQM approaches work and why, to become a major center for the collection and…
Descriptors: College Administration, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Improvement

Rallo, Joseph C. – International Studies Notes, 1991
Urges the internationalization of the engineering curriculum to prepare students for the rigors of global competition in the international marketplace. Lists accreditation pressures and market incentives as barriers to needed diversity. Discusses engineering programs at several schools. Concludes that interdisciplinary inquiry is needed to provide…
Descriptors: Competition, Curriculum Development, Economic Opportunities, Educational Objectives
Lynton, Ernest A. – 1990
This report examines the nature of the expertise needed in most professions and higher level occupations based on findings of the Project on Liberal Learning Study. It is noted that all professions commonly hold that effective practice requires more than narrow technical specialization. The report argues that the competent practitioner needs both…
Descriptors: Career Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1994
This report finds two fundamental problems threatening higher education's ability to help America succeed in challenging times: first, the lack of recognition by state and national leaders of higher education's value; and, second, the lack of recognition by colleges and universities of their need to change. The report presents recommendations to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, College Instruction, College School Cooperation
Hilton, Peter; Anderson, Richard L. – 1991
This report presents a second program review of Mathematics and Statistics in the State University System of Florida (SUS) that was conducted in 1989-90. The report reveals that all nine SUS institutions offer degree programs in Mathematics; five SUS institutions offer 10 degree programs in Statistics. It is noted that improvement has occurred…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Degrees (Academic), Educational Planning, Higher Education
Bowser, Robert A., Comp.; Carr, Joseph, Comp. – 1983
Intended to assist district and school curriculum developers, this report offers clarification of the relationships among 12 state goals of education using information obtained through a survey of Department of Education staff and representatives of professional associations. Defined as the goals of education are the areas of communication skills,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 1990
This report presents a plan for nursing education in the State of Washington that would help in alleviating the shortage of nurses in the state. The plan addresses the current status of nursing education and critical issues pertaining to the following: (1) the geographic availability of nursing education and training programs; (2) curriculum…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Credits, Curriculum Development
Whiteley, John M.; Yokota, Norma – 1988
This monograph reviews the impact of the freshman year and the four years of undergraduate study on a central dimension of personal development: the formation of character and its progression from late adolescence to young adulthood. A foreword by Nevitt Sanford places the discussion in the context of a general loss by American universities of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Consciousness Raising, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning