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Hammerman, Donald R. – 1980
During the past 50 years, outdoor education as a curriculum development has progressed from a few pilot projects to some fairly comprehensive programs in the United States and Canada. In the process, outdoor education programs have lost the relaxed pace of earlier programs, flexibility in planning and scheduling, and total involvement of the…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Humanistic Education
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Downing, Gloria; Todd, Anita – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1979
A long-range program of staff development must be an integral part of any process of program development and maintenance. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Miller, John P.; And Others – 1990
The aim and focus of holistic learning is making connections, e.g., connections between subjects or between thinking and intuition. Integrated studies implies a holistic approach to learning and a curriculum that has the capacity to combine three positions on the function of schooling: transmission of facts, skills, and values; transaction or…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach
Tunnell, Michael O.; And Others – Pointer, 1988
Affective reading instruction teaches mildly handicapped children to read by improving their attitudes toward reading through oral and silent reading of children's literature. The paper outlines steps involved in program implementation, reading activities used in conjunction with skill training, parent involvement, use of extrinsic rewards,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Humanistic Education, Mainstreaming