Project Read, which began 10 years ago as a collaborative reading strategy, has evolved into the Inquiring School model. This model arose from the realization that critical literacy strategies and structures work equally well in kindergarten, sixth grade, peer coaching, or at faculty meetings. Key elements are improved classroom practice,…

African Americans are dislocated people whose formal education leads them away from themselves. One way to progress toward a multicultural curriculum is through Afrocentric curriculum. Afrocentricity in education means viewing the African-American as a subject of history not as an object in someone else's experiences. For example, African-American…

Discusses making content area reading an integral part of the curriculum. Discusses objections, fads, critical skills, and implementation. (SR)

Discusses ways in which the process of composing may be integrated into the curriculum as part of the learning process. Group writing assignments, peer editing, and the multiple revisions allowed in process writing serve to demystify the task of writing in a foreign language and provide students with opportunities to learn from each other. (eight…

An English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) professor writes about her own experiences with college ESL students, focusing on the issue of content in study labs and ESL reading instruction at Baruch College. Aspects of the curriculum that promote language development, including active interaction with text, are described. (10 references) (LB)

Recent curriculum policy documents of the Scottish Education Department reflect an epistemological claim similar to Paul Hirst's that knowledge can be divided into distinct categories each with its own distinctive skills, concepts, logical structure and methodology. There are difficulties with these ideas in terms of the relationship between…

Describes a creative nursing curriculum based on human environments, phenomena, crises events, and lifestyle. (Author)

Explores educators' and professional writers' perceptions of the curriculum needs of undergraduate and graduate technical communication students. Reveals that technical writing, editing, document design, and graphics courses are important for undergraduates and for graduate students with an undergraduate degree in an unrelated discipline. (SR)

Describes the new graduate English program at the University of New York, Albany, and its aims. Explains that the program is composed of seven independent areas of study: writing in history; writing theory and practice; rhetoric and composition; critical theory and practice; teaching theory and practice; language and language theory; and literary…

A discussion of liberal studies in the pharmacy curriculum argues that integration throughout the baccalaureate program is needed, and teaching methods and goals, not course content, are primary factors in building coherent curriculum. Strategies used at Albany College of Pharmacy to avoid separation of the curricula are offered as illustration.…

Notes increased interest among media instructors in the broader liberal arts mission and their role in it. Explores efforts to connect journalism and mass communication studies with the rest of the curriculum. Explains a "linchpin series" which connects mass communication topics directly to various other fields. Provides examples. (SG)

Based on a survey of individuals involved in decision making about technology education, the concerns of curriculum, teaching, facilities and equipment, role and place of technology education, and support and advocacy of technology education are discussed. Recommendations from the survey group are included. (KR)

Explores curriculum developers' differing opinions before they design a specific curriculum; the amount of convergence of opinion caused by curriculum deliberations; and the retention of that convergence. Finds that, despite frequent discrepancies of opinion before curriculum conferences on design issues, subsequent deliberations produced a high…

Examines three educational responses to cultural diversity operating in New Zealand schools: incorporation of Maori culture programs in mainstream curriculums, organizational modification to accommodate Maori students, and the development of Maori culture and language immersion programs in primary schools. Application of similar programs to…

A discussion of the relevance of the liberal arts to social work education examines the "content" and "perspective" controversies. Social work is seen as applied human values, therefore intertwined with the liberal arts. It is proposed that social work education recast and strengthen its relationship with the liberal arts. (Author/MSE)