Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Heaving out the old curriculum, Allen & Co. reorganized departments into multidisciplinary "centers" that must rethink their goals every three years or automatically go out of business. Though timid undergraduates may still take old-fashioned teaching-methods courses, the adventuresome are free to gather credits where they may. In the "humanistic education" center, for example, students and professors join modified encounter groups to pinpoint the elusive emotional problems that may baffle them and the children they will teach. A doctoral student recently got credit for one self-designed unit of "watching Dwight Allen." Students also practice-teach while living full time...
Francis H. Duehay '55, assistant dean for admissions, said he expects little transitional difficulty next year. "Curriculum and methods courses [presently given by faculty in the specific disciplines] can be given in conjunction with the normal summer student-teaching sessions at Harvard's teaching site in Newton," he explained...
...proposal currently under consideration by the English Department's Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum would, if adopted by the faculty of the full department, provide for three sub-majors within the field of concentration...
...Learning Environments shop also provides a broader recognition of "what students and teachers bring to the setting in the form of values, attitudes, and psychological stages of development," and takes all these factors into account in constructing new curriculum materials...
Learning Environments, together with the newly proposed Childhood Education shop, would become a home for faculty and students interested primarily in curriculum planning and implementation. At the same time, Learning Environments directs the greatest shift away from the subject-matter oriented shops, like math and English teacher training programs, where these students and faculty were previously the most involved...