This system-level ethnographic study of a strength-based approach to transforming a national invention education program makes visible how program leadership drew on research and their own expertise to shift who and how they served. With data analysis grounded in program reports, documentation, and internal and published research, the program's…

The booklet for implementing career education is one of the products of the career education project at Sand Springs Public Schools, Oklahoma. Areas of concern are: selection of staff, orienting the community, planning inservice training, developing goals and objectives, organizing an advisory council, establishing a placement function, using…

Career education program goals in the St. Paul public schools aim at integrating career education concepts into existing curricula and developing new programs where necessary in home school programs, specialized learning centers, and grades K-12. Some high schools will offer learning and occupational center facilities to students from all…

Documents the process of building a classroom for environmental education studies. Describes an experiential program that the classroom supports. Provides insight into the integration of subject areas. (DDR)

Guidance personnel must work with other educators to integrate career guidance activities into a developmental K-adult program, rather than presenting them as a series of isolated activities. Examples of cooperative planning through which this end may be realized are presented. (Author/MJB)

Describes "Vision and Values in the Catholic School," a value-oriented curriculum developed by the National Catholic Educational Association to imbue schools with a strong social justice dimension. Discusses the program's conceptualization, curriculum integration, and parent involvement. (DMM)

Describes an arts in general education program in the Minneapolis school system, its objectives and effects. Discusses the role of the teacher in implementing an AGE program. (RK)

Describes population programs in Afghanistan (nonformal, population education literacy program), India (problems in planning/managing population education in higher education), Indonesia (training for secondary/out-of-school inspectors), and Pakistan (integration of population education into school curricula). Programs in China, Korea, Vietnam,…

Development of one curriculum--integrating all subject areas under specific goals and objectives--has been delayed by current schooling structure which pigeonholes information. This could be solved by an integrated curriculum based on Bloom's Taxonomy which flows through the common link of environmental education. Bloom's Taxonomy allows for…

The report contains a summary of the project activities and the third party evaluations for the academic years 1973-74 and 1974-75. Discussed in the summary are the objectives and accomplishments of the past year for elementary, junior high, and senior high school levels. The areas of dissemination, data collection, staff utilization, and staff…

Fragmentation in the learning process occurs when support programs evolve into self-contained instructional systems and lose sight of the original goal of improving performance in the core classroom program. The lack of planned coordination of instructional objectives results in "cognitive confusion" for students. The New York State…

Integrated learning refers to the interrelatedness of subject and skill areas within and across grades of a school program. A description is given of the framework for integrated learning programs developed by the state of North Carolina. This monograph addresses factors that influence efforts toward integrated learning as well as processes for…

Project goals for the year ending June 30, 1974 were to complete development of the model initiated in Sand Springs Public Schools during the 1972-73 school year, to provide dissemination of the model across the State, and to demonstrate the model in operation. Major efforts concerned instructional material revisions or development from the first…

The report covers the second year of a three-year project to develop a career education continuum for grades K-14 in participating Pennsylvania school districts. Emphasis was on dissemination procedures to schools for the major project components: curriculum infusion for grades 1-8, Singer Carrels exploratory component for grades 6-8, career…

This guidebook focuses on the addition of environmental service learning in elementary, middle, or high school. Sections 1 and 2 describe an administrator's view of the success of service learning in her middle school and a student's opinion of her encounters with Mississippi's natural resources. Section 3 provides a rationale for environmental…