Examines four curriculum models: mainstream centric, ethnic additive, multicultural, and ethno-national. Argues that transformative multicultural curriculum may be able to penetrate the roots of racism and weaken them. (SK)

Explains lean instructional systems design/development (ISD) as it relates to curriculum architecture design, based on Japan's lean production system. Discusses performance-based systems; ISD models; processes for organizational training and development; curriculum architecture to support job performance; and modular curriculum development. (LRW)

Considers use of motion pictures for providing learning experiences for students in counselor education programs. Presents activities from a course designed to teach diagnosis, counseling theories, interventions, and ethics. Reports that positive feedback was received from 182 graduate students who responded to a questionnaire after they completed…

This article offers a framework for infusing multicultural curriculum into gifted education that integrates two, heretofore, parallel models in education, Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives (1956) and Banks and Banks' (1993) model of multicultural education. (Contains 15 references.) (DB)

This third report in a series that provides information to understand the role of systems librarians in the development of library information management systems and information services focuses on the need for possible curriculum revision and relevant courses in library education. Includes two curricular models, including course descriptions, for…

Six experts discuss four major criticisms of the instructional systems design model: (1) it is too slow and clumsy to meet today's training challenges, (2) it has no substance; (3) used as directed, it produces bad solutions, and (4) it clings to the wrong world view. (JOW)

Purpose: To offer a coherent critique of the concept of managerial frameworks of competence through the exploration of the problems of generalizability and abstraction and the "scientific" assumptions of management. Design/methodology/approach: Employs the ecological metaphor of intellectual landscape and extends it to examining the…

An innovative way to add opportunities for the development of personal and professional competencies without adding any additional courses to a curriculum is to add individual assignments to already existing courses--a curriculum model presented in this paper as a "parallel curriculum" to the existing curriculum. The advantages of the…

Cochran-smith, Davis, and Fries (2004) reviewed the research, practice, and policy of multicultural teacher education during the last decade of the twentieth century and the first few years of the twenty-first century, and pointed out that the field needed to include inquiries that involve the work of practitioners who are studying their own…

With the advent of the 2nd wave of the women's movement, numerous voices within social work academia called for the inclusion of gendered content in the curriculum. The subsequent addition of content on women was a pivotal achievement for the social work profession. However, gender is an increasingly slippery concept. A current call for…

Overcome budget cuts, lack of leadership, top-down mandates, and other obstacles to professional development by using this book's take-charge approach. Joseph H. Semadeni guides you through a systemic method to professional development that: (1) Motivates teachers to continuously learn and apply best practices; (2) Makes adult learning activities…

The Curriculum Matrix developed by A. W. Foshay (1991) is a broad, comprehensive conception of curriculum, incorporating a range of perspectives and meanings often overlooked. This paper situates Foshay's matrix in the field of curriculum studies. By focusing on Foshay's interpretation of five curricular purposes (aesthetic, physical,…

Based on both practical experience and theoretical studies, this manual provides the foundation for the design of effective distance education teaching materials. An overview presents an outline model of major design considerations for correspondence materials that provides a context for design decisions, with categories chosen to assist in the…

Project Open is an industrial-arts curriculum development effort designed to open up opportunities for West Virginia students to study the nature of technology and its effect on man and society. (Author)

The four ideological variables of curriculum decision-making are examined in this article: 1) traditional/futuristic orientations; 2) determined/innovatory orientations; 3) commitment based/contract based orientations; and 4) consequential/causal orientations. (Author/JR)