The Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) is a research unit of the College of Education at the University of Hawai'i. Part of its mission is to develop curriculum materials for students in grades K-12. The social studies section of CRDG has been developing curriculum materials on Asia since the early 1990s. As part of a project entitled…

Laurence J. Capellas, teacher, principal, and administrator in the Hawai'i Department of Education from 1935 to 1977. Laurence J. Capellas was born in 1913 in Hakalau to two Hawai'i island school-teachers. After attending Hakalau School, St. Mary's School in Hilo, and St. Louis College in Honolulu, he went on to the University of Hawai'i Teachers…

For the past thirty-one years, the University of Hawai'i (UH) has worked in collaboration with the American Samoa Department of Education (ASDOE) and the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) to upgrade the professional level of American Samoa's elementary teachers. During these early years of the partnership, several UH professors served as…

In this article, the author proposes to describe some of the developments that have taken place in public education in American Samoa in the past few years. This has really been a period of rapid change and although many challenges remain, there has been considerable progress on several fronts. One of the fundamental organizational reforms that…

Lev Vygotsky (1986-1934) was an educational theorist and psychologist of extraordinarily wide knowledge whose major writings deal with the entire learning-teaching-development experience. Despite a wide-ranging interest in Vygotskian theory, the issue of imagination remains outside of the main line of general inquiries into his work. Thus, there…

In this article, the authors focus on three relatively concrete reform efforts now being implemented in a number of schools of education that took part in the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) study: (1) the establishment of a core of educational courses; (2) significant changes in the preparation of educational researchers; and (3) new…

The objective of the Rehabilitation Facility Training (RFT) project is to develop a short-term training extension series, in response to expressed needs of rehabilitation facility personnel in Hawaii, Guam and the Trust Territory of the Pacific. These training programs are for agency personnel, including administrators, work evaluators, work…

Describes and explains the program of skill training at the University of Hawaii School of Law, with special emphasis on the first-year Legal Method Seminar. (Author/RK)

Discussed an educational program designed to meet the needs of children with specific learning disabilities. (RK)

The author summarizes the goals and programs of the Joint Council on Economic Education (JCEE)--the organization which has led the way in systematizing economic education for the last 30 years. (Editor)

This article deals with the role of basic concepts in economic education and suggests instructional procedures which aid in the attainment of these concepts. (Editor)

The author analyzes the Joint Council on Economic Education economics curriculum in terms of a framework developed by Klein, Tye, and Goodlad (1975), and points to a wide disparity between the ideal or formal curriculum and what actually goes on in the classroom. (Editor)

Art museums have been recognized as sources for curriculum development but one of the museum's weakest areas is in its relationships with people, particularly with adults and adolescents. Examines characteristics of the population, changing patterns of housing, the influence of senior citizens and adolescents, museum manager influence and…

Describes distinctive features of the Hawaii Multicultural Awareness Pilot Project. One of its major features is the organizing of "themes" such as life-cycle celebrations to point out similarities and differences of the various ethnic groups in Hawaii. Among the more central of the program design characteristics are support for utilizing…