Traces the development of the discipline-centered approach to curriculum planning and emphasizes need for greater integration between what is taught and what secondary students need to know and understand to meet the problems of their real world. (JK)

Warns against the dangers of allowing a student too much freedom in choosing his curriculum. (JF)

Although Hungary's 1989 political transformation gave new credibility to existing policies, it did not necessarily translate into an understanding of participatory decision making or enthusiasm for school reform. Beyond the rhetoric are two dramatic curricular alterations: removal of the Marxist ideology infusing each discipline and elimination of…

If teachers and parents genuinely believe that it is educators' responsibility to prepare students for a life of "meeting employers' needs," then teachers have to better examine what it is that they choose to teach students. That is, what should be in the curriculum to ensure that students have the knowledge to prepare them for a life of…