The International Bureau of Education (IBE) is an academic institute directed toward empowering educational activities in the field. Since 1969, the IBE has been an integral part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), while retaining wide intellectual and functional autonomy. In 1999, the IBE became the…

Most middle school science curriculum has been created to provide superficial treatment of the different subject areas (earth, life, and physical science), and in-depth coverage of very little. The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) criticism of the typical American school curriculum is that it is a "mile wide and an…

Presents a model for dealing with nonverbal communication in preservice and inservice teacher education settings. (AN)

Describes, and illustrates by reference to chemistry, a systems approach to the development of instructional segments. Uses a model with Behavioral, Temporal, and Substantive elements as axes. (AL)

In this article the author attempts to sketch a more broadly conceived behavioral approach which places a priority on the higher humanistic behaviors and subsumes the smaller instrumental abilities under them." (Author/AK)

Simulation has demonstrated its ability as a teaching tool and deserves further trials in other subjects in the library school curriculum. (AB)

Provides a brief history of industrial arts curriculum development, a rationale for a technology-based study of industrial arts, and the use of a systems view in understanding and interpreting technology. (SK)

Discusses the importance of the design structure of total programs in computer assisted music instruction and presents a model for integrating computer assisted instruction materials into the music curriculum. Listed are objectives and their relevant behaviors for use in a CAI course of study in music education. (Author)

Presents one approach to developing a technology-based curriculum for the elementary school. Three models are examined which help establish a curriculum structure: (1) curriculum content structure; (2) five dimensions of the study of technology; and (3) curriculum webbing/sunburst technique. (CT)

Conducted analysis of four cases of planned change in student affairs and three cases in curricular reform. Used meta-like procedure to determine strength of association of nine variables of Probability of the Adoption of Change (PAC) model to likelihood of adoption of change, and to estimate ability to generalize PAC model across student and…

Provides an objective critique of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) as a reform strategy and a curriculum process, based on a literature review and experience in North Carolina schools. OBE is theoretically narrow, but charges concerning OBE's technocratic, uncaring orientation lack foundation. The curriculum process allows teacher participation. OBE…

Argues that the predominant research, development, and diffusion model of curriculum development maintains the present emphasis on factual or empirical questions about the environment and views curriculum change as training teachers to adopt ideas and behaviors determined by external authorities. Examines two alternative curriculum theories for…

Suggests that arts education can be used as a curriculum model for the integration of the cognitive and affective domains. Highlights include aesthetics, an interdisciplinary approach, instructional methods in art, transfer to other disciplines, and implications for instructional design. (LRW)

Explores broad patterns in Britain's undergraduate curriculum change in five subject areas. The curriculum is understood as an educational project forming identities founded in three domains: knowledge, action, and self. Proposes curriculum models that identify these components and their relationships, and discusses how weightings and levels of…

Though art educators in museums and in schools share content fields and professional backgrounds, they operate under quite different practical constraints. The autonomy of museum education, shaped by museums' missions more than by state guidelines, is part of its appeal as a profession; museum programs, in shaping their very malleable subject…