The idea that significant professional knowledge can result from practice and its careful analysis merits reemphasis. (MJB)

Francis Wayland Parker's approach to education was based on a belief that children learn when they deal with meaningful things from their daily life. Art education allows the child to explore many forms through attending and expression modes. (DF)

Exemplary curriculum designs from the past that have provided models for implementation are reviewed in order to lend perspective to designs for today's and tomorrow's curricula. (MT)

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)

A survey is made of teaching ideas spanning a decade--the 1960's. (CK)

Curriculum development efforts for English instruction over the past 20 years are reviewed, and an "inside-outside" approach that uses the structure of the discipline, or its inner core, to guide curriculum development is suggested. Three principles--metaphoric thinking, writing as reconstruction of experience, and language in context--would…

This article describes a research model that can help curriculum developers document both curriculum practices in the schools and perceptions of those practices by scholars, state department of education staff, teachers, and others. The model was developed to guide the collection of research data for John Goodlad's "Study of Schooling." (PP)

The relationships between educational theories and educational practices are discussed. Differences between a theory-to-practice approach and a goals-to-practice approach are explained. (PP)

Since education is both a science and an art, it is difficult for curriculum theorists to develop rules and principles which apply to both aspects. Practical uses of curriculum theory include the application of existing models to specific situations, and practitioners using their own practical experiences and relating them to curriculum models.…

Curriculum theory is defined as an integrated cluster of sets of analyses, interpretations, and understandings of curricular phenomena. Curriculum theory development processes are described and reasons for a lack of curriculum theory are presented. Four problems arising in the development of curriculum theory are examined. (JN)

Curriculum theorists should develop three classes of propositions: (1) definitional propositions, which involve the curriculum design and curriculum system; (2) normative or descriptive propositions, which involve goals in planning the curriculum and designing an evaluation scheme; and (3) predictive propositions, which involve the correlative…

Curriculum theory must attend to three problem areas: educational practice, ethical criteria, and content. Educational practice includes questions about predictions, explanations, and descriptions. Ethical criteria are used to clarify improvements in values. Substantive content ranges across areas of human inquiry from the humanities to natural…

Two studies of curriculum are used as examples of trends in social science research. Criteria are developed for the "ideal" social science and then applied to the two studies. Curriculum theorizing is discussed as related to social science theory. Suggestions are made for the content of an adequate curriculum theory. (JN)

A proposal for curriculum criticism contains three characteristics: (1) Criticism provides a view of curricula from the perspective of the student; (2) Criticism provides an assessment from the viewpoint of the critic; and (3) Criticism reveals the common interactions of students with facets of the curricula. (JN)

The prevailing view of educational theory is that its purpose is to be translated into practice. Theory is most practically applicable to situations which educators expect to confront at some future time. (JN)