Article discusses various aspects of relevancy and proposes ways to increase the choices of students in preparing for their role in society. (GB)

The single, most telling indictment of mass education'' is that educators allowed it to remain mass education long after its smothering wastefulness had been discovered for what it was. (Author)

The emotional and physical development of children entering secondary schools at age eleven affects their ability to adjust to new learning patterns. While teachers and curriculum planners must accommodate their needs, the children too must respond and communicate in order to realize their potential. (JB)

Five chapters in the "Annual Review of Psychology" are summarized to describe the development of the new research specialty--instructional psychology. It is concluded that the cognitive structure of the field is converging rather than diverging and is more conforming than radical. (EAO)

Two educational development programs--a revolutionary project in Cuba and an evolutionary project in Jamaica--have implications for the rest of the world. (Author)

Describes one department's experience with curriculum development through the formulation of a departmental mission statement reflecting the shared sociological goals of faculty and students. Discusses the process of achieving consensus, the actual mission statement, and the curricular and program implications of such a process. (KO)

Proposes a course-integrated, across-the-curriculum model for information literacy to enhance the curricular and educational mission of higher education institutions. Examines issues and obstacles involved in establishing such a program, getting faculty and administrative support, and working toward curricular change. Discusses roles of faculty…

Focuses on the role of fiction in the education of information literate students. Identifies Australian picture books that illustrate how fiction and nonfiction may merge into each other and how fiction may portray truth. Discusses examples of the history curriculum in South Australia early in the 20th century to show how imperial myth was used to…

Science and mathematics curricula have undergone major changes in the United States during the past 30 years. Many of the science courses developed and implemented in the 1960s were expensive, difficult, and too theoretical for students. Mathematics curricula suffered similar problems. Indonesia's 1994 curriculum-reform effort can learn from these…

Article considered human goals in music education. (Editor/RK)

The Soviet school system is, and has been since its inception, a vital instrument of state policy. The Soviet political leaders of the 1980s, in an effort to improve their educational system, are implementing into the academic program the basic Soviet educational principles of: (1) promoting Communist Party policies; (2) coordinating school work…

The history of the curriculum of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, founded in 1920, is presented. It includes not only the progressive stages through which it evolved in almost seven decades, but also some history of the founding of the Marine Corps educational system, the shift in the mission of this service in the 1930s, and other…

There is an urgent need to restructure universities in Africa; current problems include the loss of autonomy, a decaying infrastructure, inadequate salaries, an internal job market void of opportunities, brain drain, intellectual isolation, diminished research, and fossilized curricula. There is an equal need for a stabilized funding source and…

The Eight Year Study (EYS) and the Humanities Curriculum Project (HCP) are compared and contrasted on the basis of five hypotheses. First, EYS and HCP were similar in confounding conventional notions of success and failure. Second, both were manifestations of progressive education. Third, both arose in climates of unease over perceived breakdowns…