Five published articles by Elliot Eisner, director of a curriculum development project in the visual arts for elementary school pupils, were examined to determine the comparable applicability of expressed educational objectives. Ninety-nine goal statements were differentiated into five categories: (1) AIMS describe a desired final state or…

This bulletin of the Schools Council (London, England) provides a general description of the state of mathematics curriculum development in Great Britain, annotated listings of eleven curriculum research and development projects, and a list of fourteen selected Schools Council publications. Information on how to obtain publications or further…

This study in curriculum revision examined two problems: the possibility of using geography and history as integrating disciplines for K-12 social studies program; and, the ways a public college and school system might cooperatively bring about curriculum change. Other objectives included development of materials and implementation of the program.…

This report analyzes the five year history of the Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP). The authors have written from a variety of perspectives explaining how and why certain objectives were realized and others were not. Because their perspectives are different, the authors do not always agree in their interpretations. In the first two…

This study aimed generally to survey and interpret, for social studies supervisors and curriculum directors, the findings of significant research and development during the last decade that bear on: 1) what and how social studies are taught to disadvantaged students; and, 2) social studies content concerning disadvantaged or deprived groups in…

This directory lists 111 curriculum development projects in social studies and social science education at precollege levels. For each entry information is presented concerning the project director, name and address, the purposes of the project, a summary of what the project has done or intends to do, the grade level, the subject area, and the…

This bulletin offers information on nineteen Schools Council research and development projects contributing useful ideas and resources to elementary and secondary educators. These projects advocate an inter-disciplinary approach using team-teaching methods. Many projects overlap in themes, ideas and teaching strategies. Although the projects are…

In 1974, the Ethnic Heritage Studies Branch of the Office of Education granted awards to 42 institutions throughout the United States. A questionnaire was developed and completed by all projects to detail the component activity and goals of each individual project. This report summarizes those questionnaires, providing ready reference to the…

This report focuses on the background and development of three sequential courses for grades 8, 9, and 10, and the findings and evaluation on these new instructional materials prepared by the Social Studies Research Committee. Part I of this report makes explicit a set of seven Basic Assumptions about reasons for change in the social studies. Part…

A report on a project which places emphasis on classroom teachers as initiators and major developers of new Canadian studies curricula is presented in this monograph. A review of reported curriculum research focuses on these topics: teacher education institutions and curriculum development; teacher participation in national curriculum programs;…

This publication contains two separate reports. Part I, the report of the Anthropology Curriculum Study Project (ACSP), is an accounting of the time, money, and human endeavor involved in curriculum development efforts toward a course in anthropology for the high school curriculum. The document includes four reports of ACSP staff members and nine…

The objective of this paper is to bring information about 40 social studies/social science centers and projects up to date as of late spring 1971. This publication differs from the directories and summaries of the projects begun in the late 1960's in that the reports are based on personal interviews between the Social Science Education Consortium…

In addition to briefly intoducing the History Education Project (HEP) sponsored by the American Historical Association and Indiana University, and funded by USOE, this report announces the establishment (Spring, 1970) of a regional HEP team at Stony Brook, describes its tentative plan of operation, and solicits assistance from the community. The…

There are eighty-four current projects described in this directory. The discussions are organized by discipline: Anthropology, Civics-Government, Comprehensive (involving two or more Social Science disciplines), Conservation, Economics, Geography, Sociology, U. S. Culture (History), World Affairs, and World Cultures. Each individual project note…

The major thrust of the project dealt with the problems of current elementary, junior high, and senior high courses in United States history. Nine specified objectives were: 1) to encourage social scientists to participate in curriculum development; 2) to secure an identification of basic ideas and concepts concerning American society; 3) to…