Discusses the attack on the sensibilities of adolescents by the relativized and fragmented effects of the information revolution. Argues for the importance, in light of such a social environment, for the teaching of ethics in high schools. (HB)

Numerous suggestions are offered to teachers (especially secondary teachers of specific disciplines) to integrate thinking skills instruction with their subject matter. The ideas for teaching creative, evaluative, and predictive thinking in history, literature, math, and French are designed to develop independently thinking students without…

Describes the contradictory impulses embedded in the secondary English curriculum. Considers changing notions of the curriculum and recent trends in curriculum design and theory. Outlines the prominent features of successful curricula based on the concept of engendering coherent conversational domains. (HB)

Discusses the benefits of making fluency a goal of second-language acquisition. Provides a set of procedures by which teachers of German might foster such fluency among students. (HB)

Examined how middle schools with different curricula differed in teaching the same lacrosse activity, describing a unit of the enacted curriculum in the Saber-Tooth school, comparing it to a similar unit in a school using a multi-activity curriculum, and examining effects on student variables. Schools were similar managerially. Differences between…

Reviews recent curriculum implementation in Pakistan through the eyes of three members of a science-curriculum review and implementation team. Examines perceptions of past, present, and future science-curriculum implementation to reveal changing patterns in science-curriculum implementation. (Author/CCM)

Discusses a participatory-education framework for an immigrant women's English as a Second or Other Language class in Washington, DC. Describes how the participatory curriculum developed for a class of 17 working-class Latina women started to change the lives of these women. (Author/VWL)

Highlights classroom techniques that educators can use to promote intelligent, probing discussions on topics such as technology, human society, group behavior, social change, social conflicts, and global interdependence. Describes the graded discussion method. (SAH)

Addresses the question of what constitutes a writing course. Maintains that the main objective of a writing course is the development of the writer, and that the privileged text is students' writing. Takes issue with writing courses that emphasize reading, subject content, or investigation over the writing process. (TB)

Describes how education came to adopt the textbook approach and reviews various educational reform movements. Suggests that more attention must be paid to the processes whereby educators take the lead in the development of reflection that leads to changes in schools and the attitudes of the general public. (Author/JOW)

Describes an activity-based science program. Provides information on background thinking, selecting an activity, planning for instruction, and following up. Discusses choosing activities that meet the needs of students while still fulfilling curriculum requirements and reaching personal academic goals. (SAH)

Describes the introduction of a context-based physics approach in an Australia state. Presents a case study of an experienced teacher exploring how she understands what it means to teach in context and how her understanding shapes her classroom practice. (Author/MM)

There is a critical need for facilitators of children's groups, and this shortage may be due to a lack of adequate training courses. The purpose of this article is to provide a framework for educators to develop a course to meet this training need. To develop a course in children's group work, instructors need to know what to teach as well as how…

Over the past decade and a half, states in all regions of the United States have formed Holocaust councils, advisory groups, and other agencies for the purpose of developing educational programs in response to a growing interest in the Holocaust. Some states have called upon educators and Holocaust agencies within the state to develop curricula…

Among the greatest frustrations of a teacher of history is the failure of many students, even bright and motivated students, to provide concrete evidence to support their assertions about the past. The problem of evidence is by its nature developmental, and thus not amenable to simple punitive or explanatory approaches. History, as a discipline,…