Beyond the Cities
Expanding the Sense of Option Among Rural Adolescents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12009101 |
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| Authors | Faith Dunne (Dartmouth College, corresponding author), Rogers Elliott (Dartmouth College), Andrew R Block (Dartmouth College), Andrew Block |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-28 |
| Publication date | 1980-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Curriculum Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-6784 • E-ISSN: 1467-873X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03626784.1980.11075201 |
| OpenAlex | W1965125140 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Designing and evaluating curriculum that focuses on rural women is a complex enterprise. Little research has been done on the specific needs of this population, although there is a general consensus among those who work with rural women (young and adult) that their needs are many and unmet. Further, few courses of study have been developed for rural women (or indeed, for rural students in general), leaving the curriculum designer without models to follow or previous evaluations from which to learn. Finally, rural schools feel no particular obligation to serve as curriculum test sites and want little to do with anything that smacks of Lib. Thus, development of a curriculum for rural women must be done, for the most part, on the basis of experience, intuition, needs assessment, formative evaluation, and prayer. In our development and evaluation of Options: A Career Development Curriculum for Rural High School Students, we relied on all of those resources. The Options Project, funded by a grant from the Women's Educational Equity Act Program of the U.S. Office of Education, was a two-year curriculum research and development program based at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. We took on the task of designing a relatively brief course (9-1 2 weeks) that would help to prepare rural high-school students, especially young women, to deal with problems they were likely to meet as they entered the world of family life and of work. A description of this curriculum-its development and An earlier version of this article was presented at a meeting of the Evaluation Research
Curriculum · Curriculum development · Economic growth · Equity (law · Formative assessment · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Population · Rural area · Sociology · Diverse Educational Innovations Studies · Education Systems and Policy · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Medicine · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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