Critical issues for technology education (TE) identified by a 25-member Delphi panel were identification of the knowledge base, curriculum development approaches, interdisciplinary approaches, and teacher education reform. Problems identified included inadequate marketing/public relations, teacher shortage, lack of content consensus, and…

Developers of teacher researcher courses must address purposes, definitions, audiences, assessment and rigor, course content and sequence, methodological choices, and responses to student writing. (SK)

A survey of 42 state boards of nursing and examiniaton of 30 textbooks found that, despite advances in genetics research, few boards require genetics in nursing curricula. Textbooks had minimal genetics content. (SK)

This paper documents how faculty from different departments at Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business developed, implemented and successfully delivered a cross-functional cornerstone core MBA course. The course provides an introduction to fundamental business concepts from a global managerial perspective and is based on an…

Recent trends in general education focus on integrating liberal studies considered intellectual, but not practical, and professional fields, which are "viewed as practical but, for that very reason, inherently illiberal." The trend toward capstone experiences in liberal studies assists the integration of general education components with…

Teaching about the Holocaust is a deeply sensitive and controversial topic in the Republic of Latvia. Due to a Soviet-imposed silence on the topic and the developing nature of democratic education in Latvia, many schools cover this history superficially, if it is covered at all. This study examines a cross-cultural curriculum development project…

Community college educators seek to infuse their workforce courses with more "real world" activities. This 3-year case study examined how 7 instructors and 78 students in California and Texas responded to the changes involved in implementing one type of reform program--the scenario-based curriculum (Schank, 1997). The study shows that…

The curricula for preparing music specialists has remained largely unchanged for decades. In this time, most professions have moved toward preparing specialists while the music education profession has moved toward preparing generalists. The author examines how this is unrealistic and out of touch with the times and the future. Furthermore, the…

Defines and describes vocational journalism, a new subject in New York City Public Schools, and explains how it differs from traditional journalism and English courses offered in the high schools. (RB)

Argues that general semantics courses should be taught in high school and outlines the content that should be emphasized in such a course. (RB)

Argues for teaching journalism to the non-journalist and suggests areas which might be included in general courses on journalism for students who might have limited educational exposure to press problems. (RB)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the current status of sport sociology within American and Canadian Colleges and Universities. The study investigated: (1) the number of graduate and undergraduate courses offered in sport sociology; (2) current research area(s) of interest within sport sociology; (3) current text used as reference and…

The basic steps of content analysis are: (1) selecting the questions to be asked about course objectives, (2) developing the categories under each question, (3) designing a tabulation card for each objective, (4) coding the objectives, and (5) tabulation of responses. (MW)

Several curriculum models are outlined to show relationships between the various components of the curriculum process (aims, behavioral objectives, content, teaching and learning, and assessment) so that concern for the various parts can be coordinated to bring about effective changes to the whole of a teaching program. (JT)

THE RESULTS OF TWO CONFERENCES THAT CONSIDERED A COMMON CORE OF LEARNINGS FOR COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY MAJORS ARE REPORTED. AT THE FIRST CONFERENCE DURING FEBRUARY 1964, EIGHT UNIVERSITIES WERE REPRESENTED. IT IS REPORTED THAT ALL INSTITUTIONS HAVE INAUGURATED CORE PROGRAMS WHICH ATTEMPT TO TREAT THE WHOLE SPAN OF BIOLOGY FOR BEGINNING…