A vocational curriculum development model for agricultural education is proposed by the author, showing instructional areas for occupations in agriculture on four levels of vocational development: operational, skilled, technical, and professional. (MF)

Author contends that much dissatisfaction and alienation surrounding schools stems partly from their failure to have matched their curricula to the various developmental stages through which all students must pass. Articulation attempts to balance the right educational environment to the student's level of development and four basic learning…

Describes a model for career communication curricula and explores clustering of job-related communication skills. (MH)

The central concerns of curriculum are actually value questions. If there can be a source for a theory of curriculum, it is in the direction of philosophy. (Author/MLF)

Provides framework for integrating feminist perspective into family studies courses. Presents overview of feminist paradigms, women's studies, and feminist pedagogy. Identifies several values and practices that characterize feminist teaching and suggests specific strategies for integrating feminism into family studies curriculum. (Author/NB)

Two interpretations are presented of the social dimensions of consumer education: the social/political interpretation and the personal/moral interpretation. Both contain a moral dimension involving questions of obligations and responsibilities to others. (MD)

Thomas Kuhn's conceptions of the influence of paradigms on the progress of science form the framework for analyzing how medical educators have approached research on medical problem solving. A new paradigm emphasizing multiple types of problems with varied solution strategies is proposed. (Author/MLW)

The functional or community adaptation approach to curriculum development for the severely handicapped is described using the curriculum characteristics (1) philosophy and research support, (2) content and sequence, and (3) individualization. The model is further clarified through a wheel design, a complete curriculum example, and guidelines for…

A procedure that the Whittier College community, on the strength of their own four-year experience, would recommend for the consideration of other colleges contemplating the development of a new curriculum is set out stage by stage. (LBH)

This paper presents a curriculum-oriented model focusing on curriculum revision of the design and structures of two-year academic institutes of technology. This research uses the Department of Business and Technology Management, which is being set up in the Far East Institute of Technology (Taiwan), as an example and works out the new models…

Article presented guidelines for a program of environmental education and discussed attitudes toward the biophysical atmosphere. (Author/RK)

A nursing curriculum based on a descriptive model developed by the nursing faculty at Pennsylvania State University is related to specific courses. The three major aspects are environment, knowledge, and people supporting the underlying philosophy that nursing's emphasis should be on health. (MS)

The purpose of this inquiry was to investigate the relation, if any, between the students' ability to write instructional objectives and their ability to instruct/teach. (Author)

To be effective, curriculum change must be understood and accepted by the teachers who will ultimately implement it. The Downers Grove experience in developing an Individually Guided Education concept offers a model for involving instructional personnel in curriculum development. (Editor)

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