Observes that Discipline-Based Art Education (DBAE) is undergoing significant changes, including: expanded and inclusive curriculum content; art instruction integrated with other subject areas; teacher-originated curricula; and variable approaches to assessment. Suggests that changes are a response to criticisms of DBAE, and to general-education…

Discusses a model of effective transition services for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders. Project RENEW provides comprehensive case coordination for these students' ongoing education, employment, and community adjustment. Outcome data indicate that interagency collaboration improved on a pretest-posttest measure of agency…

Considers how teachers can help students become literate, critical, creative thinkers by aligning curricula, teaching strategies, and instructional resources. Promotes literacy, higher-level thinking, and writing skills through the interdisciplinary approach of combining language and art. Suggests that creating a comic strip stimulates and…

Describes a team-taught, interdisciplinary multimedia-development course for undergraduate students that was created to address issues concerning students' needs to learn how to evaluate and develop applications for new communication technology. Topics include a collaborative-learning model; course objectives; and student assessment. (Author/LRW)

Describes the Revans Centre for Action Learning and Research based at the University of Salford (United Kingdom). Topics include collaborations between practitioners and academics, organizational and professional development, change and human learning processes, interdisciplinary teamwork, action learning interfacing with research; and degrees…

Describes a lesson plan designed for an eleventh-grade honors American Studies course, but also works well for regular-level classes. Engages students in reading, discussing, and writing their own fictional slave narratives. Enables the students to connect literary texts to historical contexts and to experience antebellum history in a personal…

Presents an interdisciplinary thematic unit designed for eleventh graders that uses selected chapters of "The Martian Chronicles" to teach frontier history. Maintains that Bradbury's novel enriches students' understanding of the frontier because it compares the interactions between Native inhabitants of Mars and Earthlings to the…

A grade 6-12 Vancouver, Washington, magnet school blends arts education with interdisciplinary academics. To get in, students don't need talent or good grades, but a serious desire to study the arts. Academics are taught in the morning; afternoon arts classes are on three levels. Students are required to explore all the arts. Contains three…

Discusses aspects of more than a decade of research and implementation of cross-curriculum themes as part of the curriculum for secondary school students in Spain. Comments on theoretical and practical issues encountered in developing similar projects. Contains 45 references. (Author/WRM)

This article discusses the role of speech-language pathologists in serving preschool children with dysphagia. Current approaches to feeding and swallowing intervention, etiologies and programs, transdisciplinary teaming, developmental and feeding evaluation, and types of service delivery models (home-based and center-based) for preschool children…

Utilizes a letter by J. Dewey Soper as an example of how archival documents can be used in the social studies classroom and explains that in the letter Soper reported on his exploration of Baffin Land (Canada) to the acting director of the Geological Survey. Addresses possible activities and discussion questions. (CMK)

Discusses the benefits of using young adult literature and trade books when teaching social studies to middle school students, especially in relation to student motivation and reading level. Addresses how to use young adult literature, student choice of books, and cooperative learning. Describes two classroom activities for a follow-up to…

Reviews the debate from the standpoint of entitlement about the education of children who are classified as seriously emotionally disturbed or socially maladjusted. It examines how research has supported or contradicted the notion of entitlement from the standpoint of prevalence, classification, intervention, and cost. Ethical guidelines are…

Every year the JASON Foundation for Education produces an interactive year-long curriculum to culminate during a two-week voyage of exploration that is broadcast live to students at special receiving sites. The curriculum covers everything from the state-of-the-art technology used in the voyages to the geology, ecology, archaeology, and biology of…

Addresses environmental education in the school curriculum in South Africa, most notably the rationale for including environmental education in formal education and recent developments in South Africa that may enhance this process. Emphasis is placed on the importance of environmental education in enhancing learners' skills and in enabling…