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Neville, Emily C.; Stout, Marianna Pluchino – 1982
This handbook contains lessons designed to help fourth grade teachers teach about local government. Although specifically designed to be used with the revised New York state K-6 social studies program, the handbook can be used by teachers in other states. A basic understanding to be developed by the students is the recognition that all groups must…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Wayson, William W.; Pinnell, Gay Su – 1982
To understand and deal with student behavior, we must understand that most behavior is caused by objects and events in the world around the student; that students have learned personal ways of relating to those objects and events; and that in a setting like a school it is easier and more productive to alter those objects and events than to change…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns
Critical Games: Four Games To Help Develop Critical Perspectives on Economic and Social Development.
Cumming, James A., Ed. – 1994
The four games in this booklet are designed to stimulate critical thinking about the effects of structural and cultural issues on society and on the process of social change. The first and original game, "The Growth Game," gives participants a hands-on experience with the basic theoretical constructs of a Marxian critique of the mainstream tenets…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged
