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Peer reviewedWhelan, W. Michael; Warren, William M. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1980
Describes an experimental death awareness workshop based on Kubler-Ross' theory. The effects of the workshop reveal cognitive and emotional changes indicating participants in the workshop to be moving towards an acceptance of death. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Death, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Response
Download full textLapp, Joan – 2000
The Sixth Annual Children and the Media Conference, hosted by Children Now, focused on the media's role and potential influence on boys. This report highlights the thinking of participating advocates, academics, entertainment industry leaders, and children. Following excerpts from a keynote address by William Pollack of Harvard Medical School, the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Audience Response, Childhood Attitudes
Shabat, Oscar E.; And Others – 1980
The proceedings of the First Mastery Learning Conference begins with Rocco Caponigri's introduction and Oscar E. Shabat's discussion of the importance of mastery learning to community colleges as they attempt to educate large numbers of underprepared students. Next, Benjamin S. Bloom examines the shifting emphasis in education research from…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Community Colleges, Educational Research, Formative Evaluation
Children Now, Oakland, CA. – 1998
Children Now, with the UCLA Center for Communication Policy and Stanford University, hosted the fifth annual Children and the Media Conference. The conference focused on the intersections among race, class, children, and the media. This report highlights the thinking of participating executives, producers, writers, advocates, academics, and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Audience Response, Childhood Attitudes
Taylor, Robert E., Ed.; And Others – 1983
These 19 papers from the second annual Policy Forum on Employability Development explore the responsiveness of various educational and training institutions to changing labor market demands. The first three papers provide an overview of the forum. They summarize the proceedings and policy considerations and address how vocational education and…
Descriptors: Change, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Demand Occupations
Singer, Harry, Ed.; Bean, Thomas W., Ed. – 1984
Papers in this report were presented at a conference on text characteristics, convened as part of the Learning from Text Project. The foreword describes the University of California and California State University Joint Projects Steering Committee project to determine the relationship between ability to learn from text and academic achievement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria
Genovesi, Giovanni, Ed. – 1986
This second of four volumes on the history of compulsory education among the nations of Europe and the western hemisphere covers schools, pupils, teachers, programs, and methods. Of the volume's 16 selections, 13 are written in English and 3 are written in Italian. Most selections contain summaries; summaries of the Italian articles are written in…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Compulsory Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
