As global challenges to sustainable development are increasing, there is a growing pressure for educational systems to embed education for sustainable development (ESD) into formal education. To meet this demand, Eco-School systems were established in many countries during the past decades. Using General Inductive Approach to analyze raw data…

AN EXPERIMENTAL PILOT PROJECT WAS ESTABLISHED DURING THE 1962-63 SCHOOL YEAR IN VARIOUS ISRAELI SECONDARY SCHOOLS TO EXAMINE PROBLEMS IN TEACHING WRITTEN COMPOSITION. THE PROJECT USED EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS COMPARING TWO SYSTEMS OF INSTRUCTION--(1) THE ASSIGNMENT AND CORRECTION OF COMPOSITIONS, AND (2) A STRUCTURED SYSTEM OF…

The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary curriculum at the experimental high school on the Sde Boker campus of Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel, is described. It is viewed as a worldwide model available to academic communities to study the impact of environment on survival of all living things. (MP)

This study investigated the development of an additive schema from the perspective of the schema's flexibility in coping with new context and unfamiliar semantic structure. It followed 27 first graders who learned addition and subtraction using an experimental curriculum. The instruction involved a didactical model combining the context of two…

Students ranked 15 subjects separately by importance, usefulness, and interest. As expected, academic subjects were rated highly and agriculture was rated poorly. Students in experimental classes using the discovery approach rated agriculture significantly more highly, indicating that an experimental curriculum can change the image of school…

Autonomous schools in Israel are faced with the challenge of integrating centralized and decentralized curricular approaches. The curriculum structure by which schools attempt to comply with national curricula standards and achieve school autonomy is examined. Case studies of three primary schools involved document analysis, observation,…