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Wilson, Anne M.; Sarooghi, Hessam; Ryan, Travis J.; Mitchell, NaShara; Fernhaber, Stephanie A. – College Teaching, 2023
While higher education plays a critical role in society, little is known about the motivation of faculty members within such institutions. In this paper, we explore the faculty motivation to voluntarily cocreate an interdisciplinary course as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The results of our qualitative, phenomenological study highlight…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Motivation, Team Teaching, Curriculum Development
Beddis, R. A. – Review of Environmental Education Developments, 1986
Provides an explanation of the rationale, developmental processes, and long term objectives associated with a cross-curriculum environmental program for secondary students. Presents a listing of the aims and assessment objectives of the syllabus and includes an outline of the course. (ML)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development, Environmental Education
Frymier, Jack R. – 1972
Education should help people learn to use past experiences as a basis for acquiring new meanings, which frees individuals from what restricts and what enslaves. However, the curriculum has become a program for social purposes and the school an instrument of social control when, in reality, what is needed is persuasion (not coercion) and discussion…
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy
Hartoonian, H. Michael – 1972
An overview relative to the task of education in social studies curriculum describes three perceptions: social action, which emphasizes development of skills in exerting influence in political and community affairs; social study, which suggests that history and the social sciences be used to give student conceptual frameworks through which they…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Curriculum Development, Decision Making Skills, Educational Objectives
Arends, Richard I.; Essig, Don M. – 1972
This report is the third in a series describing the background, theory, and progress of the Differentiated Staffing Project in the Eugene, Oregon, School District. The report focuses on changes in roles within the differentiated staffing structure. It discusses the elementary principal and the curriculum associate (CA) in a unitized,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Differentiated Staffs, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary Schools
Arends, Richard I.; Essig, Don M. – 1972
This report is the fifth in a series describing the background, theory, and progress of the Differentiated Staffing Project in the Eugene, Oregon, School District. The report describes a number of instructional changes that occurred during the first year of the project. Several examples of new instructional patterns that emerged in the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Differentiated Staffs
Arends, Richard I.; Essig, Don M. – 1972
This report is the first in a series describing the background, theory, and progress of the Differentiated Staffing Project in the Eugene, Oregon, School District. This particular report reviews the history of the project and outlines the organizational structure that has emerged and developed in the experimental elementary schools. A number of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Differentiated Staffs, Educational Innovation