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Cohen, Mary – Educational Leadership, 1978
The reasons for, history of, and present standing of interdisciplinary education are discussed. Finally, implications and recommendations are set forth. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational History, Futures (of Society), Interdisciplinary Approach
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Jacobs, Heidi Hayes – Educational Leadership, 1991
To develop an interdisciplinary curriculum, a district needs a field-tested action plan. This curriculum mapping plan's four phases--conducting internal and external action research, developing a proposal, implementing and monitoring a pilot unit, and adopting the program--can be accomplished over a three-year period. Procedures are described in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Kridel, Craig – Educational Leadership, 1978
A fuller development of imagination can bring the curriculum into a coherent, cohesive whole. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, General Education, Higher Education, Imagination
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Brandt, Ron – Educational Leadership, 1991
The editor of ASCD's "Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation," Heidi Hayes Jacobs, has worked with hundreds of schools to discover best curriculum planning practices. She finds doing too much at once and forcing subject overlaps the biggest obstacles to interdisciplinary curriculum planning. Moving to standardized…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Curriculum
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Short, Edmund C.; Jennings, Thomas J., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1976
Multidisciplinary thinking is advocated as a necessary approach to curriculum development in the light of the emergence of a global society, the rate of social change, the information explosion, and new theories about reality. (GW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Global Approach, Information Utilization
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Cleveland, Harlan – Educational Leadership, 1986
The nature of the work for which we educate students is changing. Outlines how schools must help students process knowledge in a rapidly changing world. Schools must incorporate interdisciplinary approaches that teach breadth, values, and a global perspective. (MD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Global Approach
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Melle, Marge; Wilson, Fern – Educational Leadership, 1984
Describes the Jefferson County Primary Integrated Curriculum program. Developed as an interdisciplinary curriculum, the program allows primary students to work holistically. The article includes Learning Units. (MD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Spady, William G. – Educational Leadership, 1995
Rejects Matthew Gandal's characteristics of good standards (in the March 1995 "Educational Leadership") as overwhelmingly "educentric." Content standards that define what it means to be a good student within the traditional system will not prepare students for the rapidly changing future. Interdisciplinarity, competence, and authentic context are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Context Effect, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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Palmer, Joan M. – Educational Leadership, 1991
Teachers in Fort Howard, Maryland, adopted a planning wheel to keep teachers' content area central and allow integration of logical, natural elements of associated course content. The planning wheel has become a useful organizer for curriculum development, individual teacher planning, and team planning across daily lessons or at the unit level.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Planning, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Glaser, Nancy Ellen – Educational Leadership, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Education, Art, Curriculum Development, Humanities Instruction
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Scobey, Mary-Margaret – Educational Leadership, 1972
Career Education in its broadest sense could be the study of technology, or analysis of the ways in which a social group provides for its material needs. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Education, Communications, Curriculum Development, Environment
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Nelson, Paul A. – Educational Leadership, 1973
Author describes a design which seeks to formulate curriculum into discrete but interactive spheres. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communications, Curriculum Development, Design
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Groden, Austin F. – Educational Leadership, 1973
In order that humanities studies have a more permanent place in American education, author suggests changes in the character of humanities education that must develop. (RK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Humanities
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Shoemaker, Berry Jean Eklund; Lewin, Larry – Educational Leadership, 1993
Eugene (Oregon) Public Schools want to replace the traditional content-driven curriculum with a general concepts-based curriculum stressing the relationships among ideas. To help district educators understand the new model, a coin metaphor describing the two interlocking areas of curriculum (learning core conceptual knowledge and strategic…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Curriculum
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Brunkhorst, Bonnie – Educational Leadership, 1991
Recognizing that traditional science disciplines are no longer isolated from each other or from other intellectual fields, 16 Los Angeles high school teachers cooperated to restructure their science courses. To replace the "layer-cake" curriculum, the Scope, Sequence, and Coordination Project promotes teaching all secondary students a…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Curriculum Development, High Schools, Integrated Curriculum
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