The applications of learning outcomes and competency frameworks have brought better clarity to engineering programs in many universities. Several frameworks have been proposed to integrate outcomes and competencies into course design, delivery and assessment. However, in many cases, competencies are course-specific and their overall impact on the…

This article addresses specific issues within arts-integration experiences in schools. Focusing on the relationship between positive emotions, learning, and the Arts, the article discusses empirical data that has been drawn from a research study, Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Adopting Artfulness in Danish Schools. When schools integrate the…

The integration of one's curriculum is an approach to education that ignores subject-matter lines of delineation, thus allowing faculty to bring together the separate pieces of a curriculum into a coherent whole that facilitates meaningful associations across subject matter. Before taking on the challenge of curriculum integration, faculty…

This paper follows Kennesaw State's University's (KSU) faculty journey in developing a new integrated core curriculum for their Management majors that will empower the students and meet the needs of today's employers. Curriculums must change to stay current. Depending on the amount of change, this can be a huge undertaking for a department…

Multicultural education and global learning have long been acknowledged by higher education professionals to be necessary in advancing student development. Both of these agendas overlap in significant ways and can be characterized as two sides of the same coin. Notwithstanding, there has been a historical divide, even a tension between these two…

To increase the rate at which adult basic skills students advance to and succeed in college-level occupational programs, the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) developed the Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training, or I-BEST. In the I-BEST model, a basic skills instructor and an occupational instructor team…

Traditional and experiential learning are fundamentally different, and this difference has important consequences for the discipline of sociology as it is taught and practiced. Two models for curriculum integration are presented, and the consequences of each are discussed. (Author/RM)

The Center for Vocational and Technical Education at Ohio State University is working on a major modification of the current education system, concentrating on the way in which youth move from school to work. Known as the school-based Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM), the project involves the engineering, testing, and installation in…

Effective ways to implement the multicultural education demanded by contemporary social issues and demographic changes may be through interdisciplinary approaches or curriculum integration such as those proposed by James Banks and other authors. Banks defines multicultural education as "an education reform movement designed to restructure…

Presented are an overview of a total, integrated curriculum for pharmacy continuing education and a curriculum model consisting of three elements: curriculum objectives; including update, in-depth, special, degree, and new information needs; curriculum processes, such as planning, development and evaluation; and the individual learner. (JMD)

The climate for acceptance of career education has been found to be favorable and widespread. However, serious theoretical questions remain and many operational problems persist. The ultimate acceptance of career education is related to the degree to which curriculum developers can articulate and validate the behavioral outcomes of career…

The many forms of interdisciplinarity in higher education institutions and the various ways it has been used to advance curricular changes are examined. Definitions of interdisciplinarity and its variants (multi-, pluri-, and transdisciplinarity) provide a conceptual framework for the examination. In this study, interdisciplinarity is understood…

The Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development is designing the employer based career education model. The model, now at the advanced design phase and soon to be pilot tested, reflects: (1) a comprehensive educational program, (2) the needs of youth, ages 13-18, (3) an educational system to be controlled by public and private…

A model is offered for the development of an undergraduate humanities program with an integrated curriculum that critically examines the international heritage of the U.S., and also addresses current needs. A rationale for the program, a program format based on interdisciplinary learning units, expected outcomes, and assessment criteria are…

Program author describes is in English literature but the general principles of organization illustrated by the model are, with specific modifications, applicable in the design of Doctor of Arts programs in any field. (Author/CB)