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Sheehan, Nancy M. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
Analyzes Canadian activities of the Junior Red Cross (JRC) to understand the role of international movements, voluntary agencies, and informal educational practicies in curricular change. The JRC's ongoing success is attributed to overlapping educational and Red Cross personnel, its production of usable classroom materials, and its practical…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education, Hygiene
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Willinsky, John M. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
In language education, several recent curricular developments from expressive writing to interactional reading share a common core of assumptions rooted in British Romanticism. This article compares central tenets of the New Literacy and Romanticism, focusing on the former's reconceptualization of the teacher, the student, and the language arts…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Literacy
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Yinger, Robert J. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
Describes learning to teach as a task involving learning to think and act in ways appropriate to the profession's demands. Describes the language of practice, using common sense and practical analyses of knowledge and action. Illustrates these concepts with a study of student teachers and applies architecture's pattern language to teaching.…
Descriptors: Architecture, Beginning Teachers, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
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Deyhle, Donna – Curriculum Inquiry, 1986
A comparison of Anglo and Navajo students' perceptions of school achievement tests revealed a cultural dichotomy concerning the significance and purpose of tests. Study results pose policy questions: Should students be enculturated into test-taking values or should testing forms be changed to reflect cultural considerations of valued knowledge?…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, American Indian Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
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Tager, Florence – Curriculum Inquiry, 1986
Anarchist education at the Modern School of New York between 1911 and 1915 featured positive interactions between pedagogies influenced by Tolstoy and Ferrer. After the adult movement adversely affected children's activities, Tolstoy's rebel culture model dominated the concern for revolutionary politics, and the school at Stelton became similar to…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Experimental Curriculum
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Gaskell, Jane – Curriculum Inquiry, 1986
This article explores ways high school business education teachers continue to reproduce social relations of the workplace in the classroom, even as they search for new curriculum ideas that will better meet changing requirements of the labor market and of the school. (CJH)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Education Teachers, Curriculum Evaluation, Education Work Relationship
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Kimpston, Richard D.; Rogers, Karen B. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1986
A framework for generating curriculum research is proposed from a synthesis of Dunkin and Biddle's model of teaching variables with Beauchamp's "curriculum system" planning functions. The framework systematically defines variables that delineate curriculum planning processes. (CJH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Christian-Smith, Linda K. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
Shows how adolescent femininity is constructed in 34 adolescent romance novels written from 1942-1982. Most feature the "good girl" characterized by filial obedience and adherence to male-dominated romantic conduct, although sixties and seventies novels showed strain in gender relations. Narrative versions of femininity are fictional…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Females, Femininity, Popular Culture
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Hamilton, Stephen F.; Zeldin, R. Shepherd – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
To test an experiential learning program's effects on adolescents' knowledge and attitudes about local government, high school students serving as interns to local government officials were compared to students not yet participating in this program. Results showed that interns gained significantly in knowledge and political competence, but not in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Experiential Learning, Government School Relationship, Internship Programs
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Barone, Thomas E. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
Critiques the arts program of a black suburban elementary school, praising its emphasis on black artistic heritages and its fostering of racial equality and individual visibility. The school's arts activities interweave personal lives with the aesthetic motive and discourage tendencies toward conformity and docility. Includes 15 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Blacks, Educational Research
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Bereiter, Carl; Scardamalia, Marlene – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
High-literacy education, aimed at developing verbal reasoning abilities, literary sophistication, and moral precepts, has been traditionally reserved for European and American elites. Mass education, growing out of a low-literacy tradition, can benefit less-privileged children by contructing new curricular and instructional models that encourage…
Descriptors: Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Elitism
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Burns, Robert B.; Anderson, Lorin W. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
Approaches classroom instruction and teacher effectiveness by conceptualizing the physical milieu shaping teacher-student interactions. Lessons are viewed as a series of segments with three components (purpose, activity format, and assignment) that help characterize the instructional environment. Scripts are suggested to help regulate activity…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hord, Shirley M.; Hall, Gene E. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
The Principal Teacher Interaction Study analyzes what principals do to bring about curriculum implementation and school improvement. For one year, this study documented principals' interventions to assist new curriculum program implementation at nine elementary schools. Data on responder, manager, and initiator leadership styles show critical…
Descriptors: Change, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement
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Kapferer, Judith L. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1986
Examines the ways in which schools facilitate and reproduce structured social inequalities in Australian society. Shows that curriculum variations in state and private secondary schools produce graduates with radically different cultural orientations to school, scholarship, and social and occupational life beyond academe. Lists 35 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Problems, Curriculum Research, Disadvantaged Youth
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Flinders, David J.; And Others – Curriculum Inquiry, 1986
Explores the concept of "null curriculum"--what schools do not teach. Attempts to define the term, focusing on possible uses in theory, research, and practice. While hard to define and limited as a research concept, "null curriculum" can inform cosiderations of curriculum goals, content, and selection criteria. Lists eight…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems
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