The writer examines the claims of a more technological approach to everything taught in schools. He has authored a book on technology in education and is the convener of a group on technology. (CK)

The Humanization of Learning Mission is directed toward developing program alternatives which would accept as critical priorities for schooling the development of self awareness, empathic understanding, and the enhancement of social responsibility. (Author)

Bloom discusses mastery learning and automaticity. Automaticity involves a skill that is so overlearned that it becomes almost automatic. Automaticity is central to the work of talented individuals but requires tremendous time to develop and maintain. (KS)

The purpose of this paper is to make the case for organising teaching and learning in early childhood education around concepts and generalisations rather than inert facts. It is now widely accepted that facts alone are not enough to help children discern patterns and relationships, group things together, see big ideas and solve problems. Facts…

For decades, preservice training for principals looked something like this: While working as teachers, they took occasional courses at an education school on such topics as school finance, law, and educational theory. After a few years, they completed a culminating field assignment, which might have involved shadowing their own principals. Then…

In 1996, a new curricular framework for vocational education in schools called "Lernfelder" (learning arenas) was implemented in Germany. In the concept of learning arenas learning situations in schools have to be related to work activity in a particular occupation. For this reason work process orientation currently plays a significant…

Several large-scale surveys of middle-grade elementary pupils revealed that of the language arts, only reading and spelling are liked and handwriting and language are intensely disliked. (JH)

At the end of the first nine months of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) project to revise and field test the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) curriculum materials, activities are proceeding on four fronts. A coding of 61 curriculum units on a lesson-by-lesson basis has been completed and a content analysis is now being carried…

This paper lists the components of a curriculum theory, examines the constraints on theory building, and suggests several points at which the domain of curriculum research might be distinguished from learning and instruction. (Author/LLR)

This issue of "Educational Comment" is concerned with curriculum courses in pre- or in-service programs for teachers, considered from the perspective of the instructor of these courses, and with general problems of curriculum research and personnel. It contains seven papers originally presented at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum…

This 2-volume document reports on a study to (1) explore the use of network analysis as a means of describing and comparing selected instances of the curriculum change process, (2) compare the selected instances with each other, and (3) compare five conceptualizations of the change process when applied to specific change situations. (Considerable…

This article proposes a new look at an old dispute in the area of curriculum theory, that of logical and psychological organization. First, erroneous assumptions about both of these forms of organization are examined. Unwarranted associations with the immaturity-maturity continuum, the process-product distinction, and the intellectual-practical…

Sketches the theoretical notions which began the Curriculum Research and Development Group and discusses the practical import of those notions. (Editor/RK)

Article provides short descriptions of the impact evaluation of the Schools Council and the Regional Educational Laboratories. The article contends that the way impact evaluation is done depends on key factors, such as the scope of the task, size of the institution, and the methods of government and management. (RB)

The author argues for using alternative concepts and processes, perhaps several in various curriculum conceptions. Using varying designs in each classroom could make the process of schooling more responsive to the individual student and to society. (MT)