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Hughes, Katherine L.; Golann, Joanne Wang – Institute on Education and the Economy, Columbia University, 2007
Virtual Enterprises International (VE) is a high school program that teaches students about business through task-oriented and hands-on coursework. With the assistance of a coordinator and business mentors, VE students create and oversee a virtual firm, conducting business with other virtual firms nationally and internationally. The program…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Economics Education, Program Effectiveness
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1996
Based on a Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) Life Management Retreat held in June 1996, this two-part compilation provides instructional resources and teaching strategies developed by life management faculty in California's community colleges. Following an introduction to the teaching of life and home management and a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills, Educational Resources
Delaney, Evelyn – 1995
The Center for International Business Education at Florida's Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC) was established to help internationalize business programs at the college. This report provides an overview of progress made at DBCC in 1994-95, discussing international business courses and programs developed and resources that have been committed…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Curriculum, College Planning, Community Colleges
Barrett-Schuler, Barbara – 1997
This curriculum outline introduces the components of a set of introductory business and business organization and management courses which aim to broaden students' awareness of the impact of Asian culture on business behavior. The first part of the outline explains the rationale for integrating Asian culture into the course, presents the general…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Behavior Patterns, Business Education, Community Colleges
Graf, David; And Others – 1990
The 20 chapters of this student activity guide provide study guides (key terms and concepts reviews), projects, cases for analyses, and self-assessment exercises for business and career education classes. Topics covered include the following: business winners (entrepreneurship); growth of the U.S. economy, the basics of economics, comparing…
Descriptors: Business Education, Career Development, Career Education, Demand Occupations
Van der Vynckt, Susan, Ed.; Sachs-Israel, Margarete, Ed. – 1991
This document contains papers presented at a seminar that examined the Home Economics curriculum at Kenyatta University (Nairobi, Kenya) in the context of Kenya's new educational system. The seminar studied themes of nutrition and health, child development and care, and rural development. Working groups prepared reports on each of these themes.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Design, Early Childhood Education, Family Environment
Palmer, George E., Ed. – 1981
Over 175 economics education projects submitted to the 1979-1980 National Awards Program for Teaching Economics are abstracted. The aim of this annual competition is to discover outstanding classroom teaching practices while encouraging teachers to include and improve economics instruction in the classroom. Citations are contained in separate…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Awards, Business, Consumer Economics
Palmer, George E., Ed. – 1982
Abstracts of innovative and imaginative economics units are provided in this annotated listing of economic education projects submitted to the 1980-81 National Awards Program for Teaching Economics. Over 200 abstracts are contained in separate sections covering materials for primary grades, intermediate grades, junior high schools, senior high…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Awards, Business, Consumer Economics
Anderson, Deborah B.; And Others – 1981
An award winning project for incorporating economics study into the junior high school curriculum is described. As a joint activity of 3 eighth grade social studies classes, 60 students created a videotape program to teach and test 6 basic economic concepts: scarcity and choice, opportunity costs, productive resources, production, supply and…
Descriptors: Awards, Concept Teaching, Costs, Economics Education
Agency for Instructional Technology, Bloomington, IN. – 1990
This report analyzes and describes the results of survey research conducted with teachers, curriculum consultants, instructional television specialists, and others regarding the instructional effectiveness and the uses of "Understanding Taxes," a taxpayer education program aimed primarily at high school students. Written surveys were mailed to…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Coordinators, Economics Education, Grade 11
Stanford, J. D.; Imrie, B. W. – 1981
An evaluation of Monetary Economics, a course offered to distance education students of the University of Queensland in 1979 and 1980, was conducted in 1981. Monetary Economics is an innovative course designed and prepared using principles of educational technology specifically for distance education, and for the planning of effective interaction…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, College Juniors, Course Evaluation, Distance Education
White, Charles S. – 1987
"Literacy" is a hot buzzword for schools today. This is evident from the number of "literacies" that are making claims on the traditional subject-matter territory of the pre-college curriculum. Typically, each subject area of the school is asked to play a role in the achievement of these "literacies." Such is the case with "technological literacy"…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Economics Education
McBride, Lawrence W. – 1987
This teacher's guide is designed to provide elementary and secondary students with an orientation to material culture studies and an exposure to such artifacts as sad irons, washboards, butter churns, butter molds, and waffle irons. Information is also provided about wages, employment, industrial development, and advertising in the United States…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Economics Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment
Baldwin, Harriet; And Others – 1984
Statistics representing social and economic conditions in 125 developed and developing countries with populations of more than one million are presented. The booklet presents a series of maps, charts, graphs and tables representing separate sections on life expectancy, adult literacy rate, population growth rate, gross national product per capita,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Nappi, Andrew T., Ed.; Suglia, Anthony F., Ed. – 1984
Designed for use in grades K-12, award winning teacher-developed projects and courses in economics are described. Descriptions indicate grade level, project background, time allotment, objectives, activities, and evaluation. Arranged into 5 chapters, chapter 1 suggests ways to teach economic concepts to grades K-3. Projects include a lesson on…
Descriptors: Awards, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Economics Education
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