This book views higher education conceptually and seeks to recover hidden understandings of the term "higher education" and to show what it would mean for educational aims and practices if higher education were taken seriously. The approach focuses on how higher education is understood rather than how it is practiced. The book argues that the idea…

This document considers the curriculum development process as interrelated with the process of change and emphasizes the need to integrate an international perspective into the curriculum development process. It explores: (1) technological change and an international perspective on curriculum; (2) Armstrong's seven-stage model of the tasks that…

This guide is intended to help vocational and mathematics teachers design and implement integrated mathematics-vocational education courses. The guide is organized in six sections. Following two sections containing information about the project in which the guide was developed and how to use the guide, Section III provides guidelines for…

Based on the experiences of the Women's Bureau projects, this program guide is intended to help community-based organizations develop and implement an entrepreneurship training program for their clients. The program, as described in this document, is aimed at helping homemakers and other women to explore entrepreneurship as a career option and to…

In the British post-colonial era, instruction in English as a second language has developed stronger ties to the field of applied linguistics than to education. Both British and foreign instructors have been trained in linguistic rather than educational theory and practice. One result has been a cadre of specialists not fully prepared for jobs in…

Three challenges that face distance educators at the national, institute, and individual subject level in Australia are discussed in a set of Occasional Papers by the Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education (RMIHE). Australia is undergoing a period of major change. The binary system of universities and colleges of advanced education is…

This report describes the rehabilitation curriculum of Hunter College (New York). The curriculum is designed to educate and train qualified Master's level students, the majority of whom are minority, disabled, or working women, to become professional rehabilitation counselors for multidisabled alcohol abusers. Individuals with this unique skill…

This document was developed to stimulate others to attempt the writing of a mathematics-based core curriculum. It contains the following sections: (1) The Definition of a Core Curriculum; (2) Reasons Why One Should Use or Not Use a Core Curriculum in a Teaching-Learning Situation; (3) The Thoughts of Other Educators Concerning A Math-Based Core…

The following approaches to mathematics education, represented in German-speaking countries mainly, are analyzed: (1) the structuralist/formalistic approach; (2) the genetic approach; (3) the approach by elementarization; (4) the problem-solving approach; (5) the approach of Freudenthal; (6) the approach by project-orientation; (7)…

This classified, annotated bibliography of recent works on multicultural education was compiled from an ERIC computer search and from manual searches at various university libraries. Each reference is listed in one of eight topical areas. These include: bibliographies on multicultural education; rationale and theory; program strategies; models;…

Designed for writers of state and local career education plans and projects who are required to make statements of policy when applying for funds, this model policy statement contains eight major justifications for career education. Career education is defined as the totality of experiences through which one learns about and prepares to engage in…

Developed to provide bases for curriculum decisions in education for marketing and distribution careers, the conceptual framework presented here contains the following elements: Identification of social, economic and educational trends which affect employment and education in marketing and distribution; an assessment of current education practice;…

The Oshkosh Calendar Plan is described as resembling traditional calendars in many ways but altering institutional operations to permit the restructuring of time to meet the unique needs of learners, the logic of course content, and the professional interests of faculty. The advantages of this modular calendar are discussed. The Oshkosh Faculty…

This publication presents an instructional system design (ISD) which is a systematic procedure for assuring the application of planning and organization to vocational programs. The resulting instructional system, according to the author, is an integrated combination of resources, students, instructors, materials, equipment, techniques, and…

One of 10 documents developed by the Regional Demonstration Program for Preschool Handicapped Children (New York), the curriculum model is intended to describe the means by which child development theory, empirical research data, and teacher experiential assumptions are integrated into the various phases of the curriculum. Individual sections…