Exemplary curriculum designs from the past that have provided models for implementation are reviewed in order to lend perspective to designs for today's and tomorrow's curricula. (MT)

The author suggests possible directions and ways to plan curriculum that move beyond the measured curriculum. Approaches must be seen as planning for the emerging curriculum because the curriculum is ultimately the task of teachers and students as they engage with one another and with cultural ideas and processes. (MT)

This article describes the theoretical basis for and implementation of an individualized science curriculum at the elementary level. The program has the following objectives related to scientific curriculum: scientific literacy, affective and inquiry goals, and student self-direction and coevaluation. (HMD)

A survey is made of teaching ideas spanning a decade--the 1960's. (CK)

Curriculum is an event which goes beyond the curriculum guide because of the many interactions involved. It is situated in a classroom, personal, social, historical, and political context. The implications of the definition for curriculum developers and researchers are discussed. (MT)

As the curriculum is transformed to ensure that students are computer literate, we must remember that humanities are a large portion of both the substance and the essential values of learning. New knowledge about women of all racial and ethnic groups must be integrated into the liberal arts curriculum. (MT)

Examines key differences among content coverage, opportunity to learn, and curriculum alignment, suggesting that the revised Taxonomy provides a framework for analyzing curriculum alignment and illustrating how the Taxonomy Table can be used to estimate curriculum alignment. The paper notes that the revised Taxonomy enables educators to probe…

An examination of weaknessess in behaviorist and humanist models of education evaluation provides a basis for a structuralist model. This model is grounded in developmental stages, the structure of the child and the curriculum, and the idea of education as a bridge between these structures to assist the development of the child. (JMF)

Asserts that transforming school counselor education to prepare counselors to become educational leaders who serve as advocates for the equitable treatment of all children demands a systems-oriented approach, addressing underlying assumptions and values that guide such work and outlining components of one program that can serve as examples for…

Examines problems of curricular inclusion, emphasizing ways of including the interests and contributions of women in social studies curricula. After describing the inadequacy of the "add women and stir" approach to inclusion, the paper discusses the tradition of care long identified with female life, then explores ways to preserve and…

Since education is both a science and an art, it is difficult for curriculum theorists to develop rules and principles which apply to both aspects. Practical uses of curriculum theory include the application of existing models to specific situations, and practitioners using their own practical experiences and relating them to curriculum models.…