Rapid change and the interdisciplinary nature of health promotion and disease prevention necessitate constant curricular updating. This requires knowledge of curriculum development, curricular models, and faculty development. (CH)

Curriculum is an event which goes beyond the curriculum guide because of the many interactions involved. It is situated in a classroom, personal, social, historical, and political context. The implications of the definition for curriculum developers and researchers are discussed. (MT)

Presents an overview of 14 immersion education programs in the United States. Discusses (1) program origin, (2) program format, (3) program articulation, (4) student background, (5) program funding, (6) factors contributing to program focus, and (7) research results. (EKN)

Discusses implications of Saskatchewan's nine-year-old Division IV English curriculum guide of the final report on the quality and future direction of education in the province, published in February 1984 by the Minister's Advisory Committee on Curriculum and Instruction Review. Suggests revision to bring English curricula into line with the new…

A 1989 comprehensive report addressed the then-current status of curricula in all of the mainstream components of most mass communication programs: journalism, advertising, broadcasting, magazines, public relations, and visual communication. Recently, a study replicated the advertising portion of the original report, using a questionnaire based…

Those in the field of curriculum have failed to conduct the empirical research needed to clarify the nature of the phenomena and problems which are addressed. (Author)

This article identifies the contradictions in some of the existing applications of literary tools to curriculum thought, indicates some of the problematic implications for curriculum practice, and sketches an alternative conception of literature as discursive practice. (Author/MLF)

Research on the School Health Curriculum Project is analyzed, including research on instrumentation development as well as on research assessing project impact on health knowledge, attitudes, and practices of those students exposed to the project. (JMF)

Notes that "Curriculum 2000" was heralded as an overdue reform of the post-sixteen curriculum in England. Examines the policy context of the reform before drawing on research findings to address a particular issue of relevance: whether Curriculum 2000 succeeds in its stated aim of increasing breadth of study. (BT)

Discusses significance and impact of writings by University of Chicago scholar Joseph J. Schwab on the field of curriculum, focusing on his article "The Practical: A Language for Curriculum" (School Review; v78 n1 p1-23 1999). (PKP)

Using longitudinal curriculum data which they have collected over a ten year period from a nationally representative sample of primary schools (funded by grants from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority), the authors report on evidence of changing models of subject provision within the primary curriculum. The period 1997-2007 has evidenced…