Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live, in the university, with some awareness of the categories by which our lives are ordered. The curriculum informs us that mathematics is neatly distinguishable form physics, psychology from philosophy, literature from history. We know this is not so, and, knowing that it is not, are able to hold reality in view while working within these categories. But we live, in the university, with another categorization, so encompassing that we are only vaguely aware of its power to obscure reality...
Ventilated Curriculum. But Schuman proved an able administrator and an adroit innovator. Under his baton were launched the famed Juilliard String Quartet, a department of dance, fresh courses in the theory of music. Along with their technical lessons in music, students at Juilliard were encouraged to study counterpoint and harmony of a different kind: sociology and race relations. "Musical education has to be ventilated," explained Schuman. "We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...
...forward to a maximum salary of $10,000 as against $5,700 when he arrived. The student-teacher ratio has dropped from 39 to 33. Almost everything that U.S. educators hail as new and different is quietly under way in Chicago. Long before Sputnik, Willis began beefing up his curriculum, launched programs for gifted students. He got $500,000 from the Ford Foundation to start junior college TV courses, another $468,500 to tackle the school dropout problem. He has abolished grades-by-age in several elementary schools; this summer he had a 50-man team evaluating 10,000 textbooks...
Emerson's goal is to encourage "intense, committed teachers to work with intense, committed students." It presumes that most conventions must be swept aside in the process. No one expects Emersonians to make the scene for a full four years. Nor has the school any established curriculum; a teacher must create his own class. For $300 a quarter (or less if the applicant is short of money), students are prodded to find "new alternatives" in theology, Kierkegaard. Shakespeare and "Now Theater" ("It's like spontaneous...
Members of the faculty for the seven-week curriculum in Cambridge will be Paul Bohannan, of the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern; E. E. Ession Udom, of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard: Dr. Dena Farnsworth and staff of the University Medical Services; Martin Kilson, of the Department of Government at Harvard; Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., of the Department of Government at the University; Theodore Sizer, instructor in Education at Harvard, and a UCI faculty member to teach the Nigerian educational system...