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Download full textMei, Dolores M.; And Others – 1988
The Issues and Values Project was designed as a pilot program to develop and implement a law-related education curriculum for New York City (New York) private and public school 12th grade students. This booklet describes the curriculum project's: (1) purpose, background, objectives, and evaluation; (2) program implementation; and (3) student…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Experimental Curriculum
Senn, Peter R. – 1976
This evaluation of a federally funded economics curriculum project reviews acquisition of learning outcomes, success of content and teaching methods, perception of curriculum change, and facilitation of decision making. Over 10,000 elementary and secondary school students in Illinois were exposed to economics through the specially developed World…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Smith, R. Irvine – 1968
In this book, twenty-two contributors offer their individual perspectives on teaching the humanities and social sciences to non-majors in secondary and higher education. Rather than a coherent discussion of classic curricular problems, the book offers a collection of pieces of evidence about what teachers chose to when they had a free hand to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Education, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design
Thomas, John W.; Coan, Donald L. – 1978
The paper reports the results of a field test of a future studies program for students in grades eight through ten. The first section reviews the small amount of research that has been done in the area of future studies instruction. The program which was evaluated in this study is a teacher-led instructional program containing 42 to 70 class…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Course Evaluation
National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA. – 1976
Eight social studies programs in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, New York, and Virginia are described which offer high school students an opportunity to study the history of the United states using innovative, nontraditional approaches. The content of the eight courses is outlined and discussed in terms of objectives, teacher rationale in designing…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
New York Friends Group, Inc., New York. Center for War/Peace Studies. – 1971
This is a description of the objectives, program activities, and policy of an experimental curriculum development project in the war/peace field. Seven major concepts of content are defined: 1) Identity, 2) Obligation, 3) Change, 4) Power, 5) Conflict, 6) Institutions, 7) Interdependence, 8) Values and the Value Process. Rationale is that…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Citizenship, Cognitive Objectives, Concept Teaching
