Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action is circumscribed by Harvard's presence. Because the Harvard Faculty meets students in the Houses, Radcliffe must offer something similar to create Faculty-student relations. It cannot hope to venture into extensive programs of individually directed study as Sarah Lawrence did; it cannot adopt a highly student-centered curriculum; it can only cut Harvard's cloth to its own pattern...
...them, to teach them "what's for sale in a commercial society, and what had better not be." He gets back only a blank, uncomprehending stare. To his fellow teachers, Levin seeks to communicate his passionate belief that the liberal arts should have an equal place in the curriculum alongside animal husbandry and road engineering. They back away as if fearing infection...
Each student is expected to take at least one or two courses in curriculum development and teaching procedures in the sciences or mathematics. A certificate is awarded upon satisfactory completion of the year's work...
...purpose of the Institute is to provide mathematics and science teachers opportunity to learn of recent advances in their fields, and to consider the of curriculum and instructional changes in their schools. For this purpose, each student is given a year of all-time study, free from teaching responsibilities...
Such a plan might affect the character of our teaching, and our thinking about curriculum. But it seems unlikely that what is valuable would be lost what is less valuable might slowly change...