Contemporary curriculum theorizing: crisis and resolution

Value Crisis in Contemporary Indian Society

The crisis of the contemporary paradigms

Three Day Crisis Resolution Unit

This paper describes a three day crisis resolution unit within the confines of the psychiatric emergency service of a general hospital. It utilizes a crisis model of acute intervention, time limited psychotherapeutic approach combined with family therapy, and psychotropic medications when indicated. 136 consecutive admissions were reviewed, 49% were discharged within 72 hours, and 51 % required...

Challenges for Curriculum Leadership in Contemporary Teacher Education

This paper outlines the complex contemporary milieu of Australian teacher education within which curriculum leaders responsible for designing teacher education programs must make their program design decisions. Particular attention is paid to the collision of vertical (‘hierarchical’ or 'academic rationalist') and horizontal (‘flat’ or 'student-centred') curriculum discourses as a program desig...

Crisis: Extensions in Meaning from the Renaissance to Contemporary Times

Usage quotes were compiled using Google books [2], Oxford English Dictionary Online [3], and The Stanford dictionary of Anglicized words and phrases [1]. Dates and authors of usage quotes are cited in text. Page numbers for usage quotes, if available, are found along with the quotes themselves in the appendix at the end of the paper. A number in brackets [ ] at the end of each entry tells which...