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Direct linkBuck, Alison; Parrotta, Kylie – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
In this paper, we describe an exercise that challenges hetero-normative and sexist notions of sexuality, allowing students to envision alternative models. Research shows how active learning eases student anxiety over challenging or threatening material. After reading Jessica Fields' "Risky Lessons" and Waskul, Vannini, and Weisen's…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Student Developed Materials
Peer reviewedCordeiro, Patricia – Language Arts, 1990
Describes problem-based thematic instruction in an effort to give both students and teachers meaningful experiences. (MG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education
Download full textJohannessen, Larry R. – 2000
One of the major problems with the English curriculum is that literature, language, and composition, the three major strands of the curriculum, have been separated rather than integrated within the curriculum. This inservice program, which was given for English teachers at Niles High School in Skokie, Illinois, advocates the use of conceptual or…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Design, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Peer reviewedChristie, Frances – Linguistics and Education, 1995
Examines the scope of pedagogic discourse, which involves the operation of a set of principles by which persons are apprenticed into ways of working valued in a culture. A pedagogic discourse is realized in two sets of language choices: (1) those connected with the goals of the teaching-learning activity, and (2) those concerning the content to be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Class Activities, Curriculum Design, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedMacGowan-Gilhooly, Adele – College ESL, 1991
Describes a college English-as-a-Second-Language curriculum model based on a whole-language approach that is presented to stimulate others to review and revise their own curriculum. (25 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Educational Strategies
Sheldon, Kenneth L. – 1994
Today's social and demographic changes demand that elementary and secondary education incorporate social skills and affective education in the curriculum. One way for this to be accomplished is through an interdisciplinary approach. Numerous curriculum resources which use an interdisciplinary approach and address affective skills are available for…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Alcohol Abuse, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning
Adkins, Dorothy C.; Balliff, Bonnie L. – 1971
The classroom interactions and activities described in this document are intended to provide experiences that will increase the probability of the occurrence of each of the response constituents of motivation to achieve in learning in school. These materials have been organized into five units; each unit emphasizes one of the five constituents:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Objectives, Child Development, Class Activities
