Author describes a design which seeks to formulate curriculum into discrete but interactive spheres. (Author/CB)

Argues that the adoption of the bureaucratic structure, with its concomitant values, has proven to be incompatible with both intellectual and human development, that a learning environment that promotes simultaneously both intellectual development and humanism must be created, and new forms of organizational structure to achieve goals currently…

The Social Encounter and Research Curriculum for Humanization (SEARCH) is an individualized social education curriculum for K-3 being developed at Research for Better Schools, Inc. The SEARCH instructional plan is based on a model of cognitive and social development as well as on a child-centered instructional format. Its content is organized…

In an effort to improve students' interests in science and science courses, a study was conducted in Israel to evaluate students' attitudes towards science relative to two chemistry curricula. These curricula were Chemistry for High Schools (CFH), and Chemistry--A Challenge (CAC). The CFH program was mainly designed for science-oriented students…

This paper emphasizes that one of the main concerns in year-round education is the effect upon the social, emotional, physical, and psychological development of children. Alteration of the school calendar, and the curricular innovations that tend to piggy-back year-round programs, may well provide the impetus for individualizing and humanizing…

Proposes three principles for a new progressivism. These establish the nature of individualism in education, the need to empower individuals through education, and the economy of means by which this can be achieved through progressivist methodology. Assumes a constructivist rather than a social-constructivist model of human development. (MJP)

These six lectures explore alternative approaches to education both within and outside the educational system. The contributions and their authors include: "Telling It Like It Ain't: An Examination of the Language of Education," by Neil Postman; "The Psychology of J. Piaget and Its Relevance to Education," by Vinh Bang (presented also in French);…