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The report urges that the study of curriculum content be subordinated to investigations of, and the training of students to deal with, the impact of a school's social structure- the so-called "hidden curriculum."
This move away from subject-matter shops will lead to a one-year moratorium on admissions to doctoral programs in Social Studies, Education, Language and Literature Education, Science Education, Mathematical Education, and Curriculum and Supervision if the report passes. These are the major fields hit by the recommended reduction in...
The 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.
The Ed School currently runs "on-site" teaching programs in Newton, Cambridge, and Boston. Although these would continue to serve the interests of the entire school, the CAP expects the Learning Environments area to oversee many of these programs.
The proposed Human Development shop consolidates at least three present programs, one of which already does extensive research in early childhood development. But the report recommends that there be a greater commitment to intervention programs "for children ranging roughly from the period of infancy through the early elementary years."