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Hughes, Elizabeth M.; Yakubova, Gulnoza – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2016
Video-based intervention (VBI) has strong evidence supporting efficiency in teaching social, communication, functional, behavior, play, and self-help skills and emerging evidence for teaching academic skills to students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). VBI allows opportunities to electronically provide personalized, consistent, and prerecorded…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Social Development, Communication Skills
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Preskill, Stephen – Social Science Record, 1991
Discusses Tennessee's Highlander Folk School. Reports that the school helped organize labor unions and played a role in the civil rights movement of the 1950s. Explains that Highlander sought to bring about southern integration. Argues that successful civic education draws out the experiences and interests of participants and nurtures respect and…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Civil Rights
O'Keefe, Edward J. – 1985
This paper describes an innovative program for teaching self-management to children in elementary and secondary schools. The background of techniques for teaching self-management is briefly reviewed, the application of self-management techniques is noted, deficits in self-management programs are considered, and Lazarus's multimodal model of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Approach
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Rowland, Michael L. – Adult Learning, 2006
Many adults search for spiritual guidance and direction and persist in seeking answers to life in today's fast-paced world. With burgeoning economic challenges, political corruption, war in Iraq, poverty, health care concerns, environmental concerns, rising fuel costs, violence, racism, and oppression, many adults seek solace and greater…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Self Concept, Improvement, Christianity
Wright, Trevor – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005
This book is packed with practical advice drawn from the author's extensive and successful experience as an English teacher, examiner and teacher trainer. It is accessible and very readable, and may be dipped into for innovative lesson ideas or read from cover to cover as a short, enjoyable course which combines exciting teaching principles in…
Descriptors: Self Help Programs, English Teachers, English Instruction, Guides
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Fried, Stephen B. – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Describes a special topics course in American popular psychology. Course objectives are to trace the history of the popularization of psychology in America; discuss the efforts of William James, G. Stanley Hall, and others; and evaluate the quality of various examples of popular psychology. (MJP)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Course Content, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences