Despite the long history of curriculum studies in the American Educational Research Association, few past presidents have used their presidential addresses to speak about the curriculum and its importance in education research and teaching. In this essay, I examined the presidential addresses (and paper) of three well-known curriculum…

On 13 July 2013, the Cherwell School in Oxford celebrated its Golden Jubilee. Among the speakers was Philip Huckin, a pupil at the opening of the school in 1963 who went on to work in education for more than 33 years, mostly in comprehensive schools and often in socially challenging areas. This is the text of his speech.

The development of the largest school-based career education model program, by the Center for Vocational Education (CVE), went through several stages. The three levels of career awareness, career exploration, and vocational preparation became an integral part of the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) at an early stage. Eight elements were…

The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has been involved in the design and development of career education curriculum materials for well over a decade, even before the term was originated by the U.S. Office of Education. This led to the involvement of AIR in the design and development of the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM). Four…

At the end of the first nine months of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) project to revise and field test the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) curriculum materials, activities are proceeding on four fronts. A coding of 61 curriculum units on a lesson-by-lesson basis has been completed and a content analysis is now being carried…

The leadership and career experiences of the principal in other eras are relatively missing from both the writings about school administration nowadays and the social history of schools. Exploring past forms of leadership might shed light on enduring aspects of leadership and its contextual-historical influences as well as on the development of…

This paper utilizes a case study approach to identify the ideosyncratic variables related to the success or failure of educational change efforts. Some of the variables discussed include ethnic, economic, religious, and military factors; and national and local problems. Ways of testing generalizations developed in this manner are also proposed.…

From a paper given at the NAHE Conference in Seattle, Washington, October 20, 1972. Directions necessary for the Humanities are discussed. (JB)

Reports from two departmental sessions at the American Vocational Association 1971 annual meeting. (MU)

A new thrust for industrial arts would explore the application of technology to the solution of the major social, environmental, and operational problems that face mankind. (JK)

The first objective of the study, conducted with 150 three-, four-, and five-year-olds, was to ascertain whether young children assign occupational and social roles by sex. The results obtained through the use of two newly devised instruments were positive. Children do assign social and occupational roles by sex. The second objective was to…

Results from an evaluation study of a new masters' program in social work are described. The paper focuses upon the interaction between program goals that are conceived in terms of (1) the need to train social work students in three methods of social work, and (2) the need to prepare students who could address the problems of disorganized urban…

Social studies curricula should be based on a provincial-universal principle of maintaining a continuous interaction between the local community and the world community. It is suggested here that those who are already doing this can contribute by offering suggestions to others trying to implement the world principle in their classrooms. Those who…

Several aspects of the curriculum problem are considered here. The first, Scope of Population Study, attempts to provide a general delimitation of the field by identifying overlapping and related areas of study. A second aspect, Goals of Population Study, identifies three general goals: 1) development of an understanding of the significance of…

Presented at the Business and Office Education division session of the American Vocational Association 1971 annual meeting. (MU)