In addition to knowledge of content, learners, contexts, and purposes, the teacher knowledge base should emphasize five domains: curriculum pedagogy, instructional models of teaching, goal development, a plan for teaching, and interpersonal skills. Teachers should be able to foster a community of individual learners. (SK)

Analyzes problems with the discourse of criticism (jargon, lack of practical connection) and of possibility (ineffective idealism) in curriculum studies. Substitutes the discourse of imagery, in which critical scholars address how as well as why language practitioners can understand. (SK)

Presents results of a survey questionnaire asking for teacher perspectives on student acquisition of democratic citizenship. States that the survey initially was begun as a field test of the evaluation instrument. Includes the survey questions and percentages of agreement and disagreement in the teachers' responses. (DK)

Investigates the existence of an identifiable core cognitive curriculum operative in early intervention programs as revealed in the developmental inventories used to assess students and in Individual Educational Program (IEP) objectives. Discusses the substance and suitability of this curriculum for developmentally disabled preschoolers. Questions…

What should be learned? How should it be organized for teaching? These seemingly simple questions are deceivingly political. Curriculum theorists are preoccupied with the politics of the first question at the expense of the realpolitik of the second. Instructional designers are preoccupied with the realpolitik of the second question at the expense…

The purpose of this article is to analyse the meaning of different cultural paradigms in the development of educational technology. The article analyses technology critically from the perspective of the philosophy of technology, examines the manifestations of instrumentalism in the curriculum theory and analyses its effects on the different levels…

In this article, the author, the director of a school for children of ages three to seven, reflects on a curriculum used in the school, shares four assumptions that have made about how children learn best, and presents five goals that guided the caregivers to help children to learn. The curriculum involves a circular process of observing and…

This study details parents' and students' current thinking about math, science and technology (MST) education and their satisfaction with the existing curriculum which most experts see as vastly below world-class standards. The study finds just 25% of Kansas/Missouri parents think their children should be studying more math and science; 70% think…

Teachers have been understood in their functional role and collective agency in sociology. In this article, the author rethinks the structure and agency dimension of teaching in the context of Japanese school education in transition. The new curriculum in Japan puts emphasis on children's subjective experience of learning. This article explores…

An ongoing study for the National Research Center on Literature Teaching and Learning, conducted by Alan Purves, Sarah Jordan and others aims to identify the problems and challenges facing teachers and students of culturally diverse texts. It is also trying to determine how best to incorporate multicultural literature into the curriculum, grades 7…

This paper argues for an increased research emphasis on curriculum structure. A conceptual framework that synthesizes past and current conceptions of curriculum structure and provides a vocabulary of useful concepts is suggested. (Author/JR)

This review of the Twenty-Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (1926) notes the circumstances that led to its appearance and assesses the picture of curriculum work that it presented. (Author/MLF)

This article, a reprint from the 1927 Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, discusses the social purpose of education, the function of the school, and curriculum-making and the nature of the learner, the nature of society, the organization of knowledge, and the scientific method. (Author/MLF)

From the available literature, this paper reviews Black Studies in terms of its relation to the various elements of curriculum: rationale, objectives, materials, content, methods of implementation and evaluation. Information concerning student attitude toward Black Studies and research instruments related to the measure used in this study are also…

The boundaries of the curriculum field are often confused with those of other fields in education. This paper proposes 10 recurring themes, called key concepts, that are unique to the curriculum field. The key concepts, identified from select curriculum textbooks, delineate the field's content, establish its boundaries, and permit a greater…