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…

Those in the field of curriculum have failed to conduct the empirical research needed to clarify the nature of the phenomena and problems which are addressed. (Author)

This review of the Twenty-Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (1926) notes the circumstances that led to its appearance and assesses the picture of curriculum work that it presented. (Author/MLF)

Four characteristics of curriculum theory are proposed: (1) Curriculum theory focuses on content, aims, and program development in education; (2) Curriculum theory rationalizes procedures for curriculum construction; (3) Curriculum theory conceptualizes curricular phenomena; and (4) Curriculum theory attempts to explain curricular phenomena. (JN)

The first part of this article reviews research comparing innovative to traditional curriculum introduced since 1957 and draws tentative conclusions about the influence of curricula on school achievement; the second part explores the implications of those conclusions for educational theory, research, evaluation, and practice. (JH)