Recent trends in educational reform efforts:
- Moves from content- and teacher-centered to student-centered and learning-centered educational thrusts.
- Embraces both disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives
- Includes a variety of ways of constructing understanding and meaning
- Fosters collaborative teaching and learning environments
- Increases emphasis on active, collaborative and reflective learning
- Incorporates rationally-based and values-based knowledge
- Links the curriculum and co-curriculum
- Encourages civic and service components in educational agenda