Reports on the formation of a faculty seminar designed to explore areas for interdisciplinary scholarship and to develop courses out of the ongoing concerns of an active professional colloquium. Describes studies pursued by participants and courses that have arisen as a result of the seminar. (GW)

Examines some of the reasons why the Bullock Report's recommendations for language instruction across the curriculum have not been fully implemented. Proposes a strategy using the "five languages" as a framework for a curriculum which may be more successful. (ARH)

Criticizes discipline-based art education (DBAE), as proposed by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, as being too confining for classroom use. Considers DBAE to be too narrow and limiting for teachers and calls for new interpretations of a more interdisciplinary view of art education. (GEA)

Argues that the telecommunications field has specific computer applications; therefore courses on how to use computer programs for audience analysis, station accounting, newswriting, etc., should be included in the telecommunications curriculum. (PD)

Social psychology has separate sociological and psychological approaches that must be bridged in undergraduate courses. One possible course format is to cover a variety of theories, then their substantive applications. Two texts, detailed handouts, and demonstrations, including simulations and field problems, help students to understand and…

This historical case study explores the 34-year history of interdisciplinary curriculum development in one public school district. Interviews with nine veteran teachers and three administrators suggest that the role of curriculum specialists and the drive for accountability and consistency are the key influences on the curriculum development…

The reputed merits of the interdisciplinary curriculum movement are explored in this collection of works by leading educators. Context is laid out in the introduction, "When Theory Meets Practice in the World of School," by Pam Grossman, Sam Wineburg, and Scott Beers. The chapters are as follows: (1) "On Disciplinary Lenses and…

In this work a tentative approach is described, with the intent of an optimized insertion of the environmental contents in engineering courses, using the existing disciplines, and with a minimal, if any, increase of the disciplines related to environmental protection. The disciplines are firstly classified with regard to the environmental issues…

The educator-advocate as gerontologist must simultaneously develop a core training in aging, induce other faculty members to add gerontological content, build interdisciplinary bridges with other academic units, and influence other educational institutions. (Editor)

Ethical foundations for environmentalism are outlined and goals for a multi-disciplinary approach to environmental education are stated. Included are some basic suggestions for formulating curriculum guidelines. Conservation schools in Ontario, Canada, are described as a type example of environmental education. (SM)

Career Education in its broadest sense could be the study of technology, or analysis of the ways in which a social group provides for its material needs. (Author)

Author describes a design which seeks to formulate curriculum into discrete but interactive spheres. (Author/CB)

Suggests that if English education is to survive it must become an interdisciplinary study. Revised from an address to the ADE Seminar in Los Angeles, June 1971. (RB)

With funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, three multimedia unit prototypes were produced, replicated and field tested. Unit 1: The Visual/Tonal Analogy; Unit 2: The Visual Koan; and Unit 3: The Classic and Romantic Point of View. (JB)

Author describes aesthetic education as the development of sensitivity to the aesthetic qualities of things." (MB)