Proposes a media economics model to structure mass communications survey courses. Presents five assumptions valuable in creating an economic framework, and discusses how these concepts from microeconomics can apply to mass communications. (MM)

Describes a Catholic high school science unit on the origins of energy, matter, stars, planets, and life. Explains how the three- to four-week unit seeks to promote a unifying vision of science and religion, physics and biology, art and chemistry, education and living. (DMM)

Describes an experimental course, independently developed by the writing faculty, but with assignments adapted to the biology class. (HTH)

Describes a philosophy course with an expanded writing component. Includes samples of writing assignments. (HTH)

Describes how teachers can use the Bayeux Tapestry as the basis for writing games in many disciplines. Offers guidelines for conducting introductory lectures and preliminary investigations. Presents a series of writing games for the following disciplines: Art, Communications, English/Language Arts/Foreign Languages, History/Social Sciences, Home…

Multicultural education can be infused into the existing curriculum to help students become less ethnocentric and more cosmopolitan. Multicultural lessons dealing with numerals, abacus, calendars, and money exchange that were implemented successfully into a mathematics unit are discussed. (DF)

Suggestions and background information are offered for audiologists, speech-language clinicians, teachers, pediatricians, and psychologists dealing with language and learning problems that appear to be related to auditory processing deficiencies. (CL)

Many African history themes can be integrated into a world history course to introduce students to the unique history of Africa and to provide new perspectives from which to view Western and Asian history. Themes are suggested, and appropriate sources of information are discussed. (RM)

This booklet was inspired by the need of educators and therapists of preschool students who are blind and visually impaired to share their observations of children with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia (ONH) and the therapies found to be helpful when working with these children. The work done at the Blind Childrens Center is very rewarding, and these…

This paper describes the design and initial data analysis of an ongoing study to determine the important elements, as perceived by faculty, of the learning and teaching of problem solving in the context of an introductory calculus-based physics course. To elicit instructors' beliefs that inform their instructional choices, an interview around…

Foreign language study and culture study are two important complementary subjects which have the outward direction of interest and human value necessary for students to develop their personal growth. Article describes a program for such growth. (Author/RK)

An outline of a systems approach to teaching science to non-specialists and to giving specialists an interdisciplinary view of science. It is concerned with the nature of science in terms of the basic concepts involved and the relationships between them. (Author)

Film study can be a valuable educational endeavor if the pedagogical point of view is not short-sighted; if the medium does not become the message; and, if students are allowed to make a film as well as see many of them. (DS)

The war in Vietnam created a new curriculum on peace education. The new courses, known also as Peace Studies, take an interdisciplinary approach combining sociology, history, philosophy, morality, economics, futuristics, and political science. (DS)

The history of witchcraft offers an interesting avenue to the study and teaching of important historical and social phenomena. Valuable research contributions by historians is discussed and listed in the bibliography. (JB)