Creative Curriculum Development and Practice
Guest Editor: Jessie A. Roderick
Contents
Acknowledgments ………………………………………………………… v
Section I. Introduction
Guest Editor’s Comments …………………………………………………. 3
J. Roderick
Conference Opening Remarks ………………………………………………. 8
P. van Stapele
Greetings from Hiroshima ………………………………………………… 9
S. Takemura
Opening Address ………………………………………………………… 10
M. Andela-Bauer
Greetings ……………………………………………………………… 12
R. Gorter
F. Winkel
Presidential Address:
Perspectives, Paradigms, and Personal Creativity in Organizational
Responsibility: What Next? ……………………………………………….. 14
N. Overly
Section 2. Plenary Session Presentations
The Immortal Robinson or Whether Creativity can be Educated ………………….. 27
L. Dasberg
Creative Curriculum Development and Practice ……………………………….. 37
E. Eisner
Stages of Growth to Global Personhood: A Paradigm for Orchestrating
A Future for WCCI ……………………………………………………….. 49
E. Nicholas
Section 3. The Poetry of Curriculum
CREATIVE: From Word to Acronym …………………………………………… 57
T. Swee-Hin
Curriculum Planned and Lived —A Vedic Perspective …………………………… 58
S. Ahlawat
A Poetry of Curriculum …………………………………………………… 64
N. Haggerson
Creative Curriculum: The Mythological Roots ………………………………… 70
K. Berry
Common Threads Between Humour and Peace Education …………………………… 77
C. Leeds
Translating Values into Action ……………………………………………. 86
A. M. Golden
Section 4. Curriculum Practice: Examples and Instances
Creative Education: A Paper Reality? ………………………………………. 91
J. Chaurasia
A Distance Education for Bangladesh ……………………………………….. 97
G. Shah
Turning Students on to Science ……………………………………………. 103
T. Liem
From Where You Are: Three Perspectives …………………………………….. 109
L. Jasik
Creative and Mastery Learning: A Curricular View ……………………………. 115
F. Mina and S. Mohamed
A Modular Approach to Curriculum Development:
Theory Into Practice …………………………………………………….. 119
A.Carl
The Similarities in the Receptions of Teacher Training
Programs in St. Lawrence, New York and Szeged, Hungary ………………………. 127
S. Klein and K. Farkas
Abstracts
Education for All: Eradication of Illiteracy, Provision and
Improvement of the Quality of Universal Primary Education …………………….. 137
S. Takemura
Practices of Peace Education in Hiroshima …………………………………… 138
H. Morishita
Death Education for Young Children …………………………………………. 139
E. Ishigaki
Section 5: Curriculum for Whom?
Drama and Development in Kenya: The Children Speak …………………………… 143
W. Kironyo and L. Dijkema
Rural Adults’ Perceptions of Child Abuse: Implications for
Parent Education Curriculum ……………………………………………….. 147
E. Maduewesi
Approaches to Developing Creative Curriculum in the South
Pacific Islands: A Cross-Cultural View ……………………………………… 154
B. Fox
Counseling for Change in Stereo-type Sex Roles in the
Indian Context …………………………………………………………… 160
G. Unnithan
Section 6: Reflections on the Process of Curriculum Development
Approaches to Creative Curriculum Development ……………………………….. 169
L. Berman and J. Roderick
The Closed and Open Contract: Two Irreconcilable Structures
In Curriculum ……………………………………………………………. 176
N. Garman
WCCI: A Context for Creative Curriculum Development and Practice ………………. 183
P. van Stapele
Interest Group Reports ……………………………………………………. 189
Conference Participants …………………………………………………… 205