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Metcalf, Laurence E. – Media Methods Explor Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Problems
Heyer, Robert C. – Man/Society/Technology, 1983
Technology, Society, and You is a six-week interdisciplinary unit in the ninth-grade English curriculum in a West Virginia junior high school. The focus is on the interaction between technology and the individual, the opportunities and problems associated with its use, and the role that humans can play in influencing its direction. (SK)
Descriptors: Course Content, Grade 9, Interdisciplinary Approach, Junior High Schools
Baier, Kurt, Ed; Rescher, Nicholas, Ed. – 1969
This collection of essays aims to draw attention to important areas of interaction between technology and values, to offer some ideas of where and how control of social problems may be attempted in ways which are compatible with the dominant values of the persons affected, and to map out a framework of categories within which one can describe and…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Futures (of Society), Interaction Process Analysis, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hollister, Bernard C. – 1974
Fourteen science fiction stories are collected and arranged under the themes, MarsAmerica, Progress, Machine, Society, and Weapons. These stories make statements about the present as well as the future and allow students to confront that future before it overtakes them. The purpose of the anthology is to prepare students for the different…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Futures (of Society), Interdisciplinary Approach, Moral Values
King, Alexander – 1972
In view of the changing relationship between science, technology, and the quality of life, future efforts need to be devoted to the use of new knowledge for social objectives rather than for economics and defense. The mass of problems facing society today, which to some extent are direct side effects of technological growth, appear to have three…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Environmental Standards, Futures (of Society), Global Approach
Download full textPoint Pleasant Beach Board of Education, NJ. – 1968
This is one unit of the series described in SO 000 378. The teacher's major concern must be the establishment and development of criteria by which the student can interpret the present. The intellectual history should develop a picture of that which is unique in our society, and offer the student a basis for understanding himself and his…
Descriptors: American Culture, Democratic Values, Humanities, Intellectual History
PDF pending restorationLieberman, Marcus – 1979
The paper reports on the first year of an eighth grade social studies unit, "Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior" (ED 152 670). The unit focuses on the question of individual responsibility in society. During the first year of the program, experimental and control groups were pre- and posttested in four domains:…
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Attitude Change, Curriculum Evaluation, Decision Making Skills
