The Integrated System for Workforce Education Curricula (ISWEC) project is designed to integrate academic and vocational education in a curriculum framework for grades 9-14. Pedagogical advantages to integration include the following: humans learn by connection-making, students can apply their knowledge and skills to new and unfamiliar situations,…

A symposium that focused on the education of chemistry teachers in China at predominately the middle and high school levels is discussed. The topics of curriculum and textbook reforms, instructional uses of modern technology, science-technology-society, collaborative efforts with educational psychologists, hands-on laboratory work, and the…

Shows how two approaches, nurture (subject-matter centered) and nature (child-centered), have affected education and art education over the years. Concludes that whichever approach is fashionable, art education must be relevant to students' lives and they should be able to talk intelligently about art. (KM)