Identifies cultural universals as general categories of traits that all cultures possess, the delineation of which can distinguish one culture from another. These include, material culture, social organization, and economic organization. Discusses teaching strategies for exploring these phenomena. Includes a sample lesson and related World Wide…

Faculty, staff, and students at San Francisco State University (California), most of whose lives are touched by Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), have responded by rallying to help AIDS sufferers in need, by including AIDS information in courses, offering confidential testing, and becoming sensitized to gay and related issues. (MSE)

Describes a lesson for secondary students where they identify the most positive and negative features of current law governing the status of minors and the relationship of adults to children. Provides a sample of court cases and a list of issues affecting teen-age rights and protections. (CMK)

This study attempts to examine and explain the citizenship choices made by the governments of Estonia and Lithuania. The report explains the factors driving the inclusiveness of the policies. The project attempts to discover those factors that lead the government of a newly independent state to develop a more inclusive or more exclusive…

As part of the Asian American Bilingual Center (AABC) Pilipino Language Arts Program, a curriculum suitable for students in kindergarten is presented. The program is geared both to the immigrant Filipino child and to the American-born Filipino child who learned to speak Pilipino at home, and includes kits that emphasize the AABC's major concepts:…

Ideas submitted by middle school Youth for Justice teams are presented. Sixty-four teams from middle schools in all regions of Ohio spent 5 months researching and preparing their ideas for the Youth Summit. Ideas that identify and propose solutions and action steps to address the multiple problems of violence by and against youth are compiled in…

This report explores the use of videos to facilitate learning in a mathematics course for teachers developed by England's Open University. Specific video extracts are discussed from a psycho-analytic perspective on learning. The report first examines the course content and briefly discusses the use of video as a teaching tool. Then the…

The two reports combined here examine process consultancy in the summer school program of the Open University in England. The first report presents an enquiry into relationships in summer schools, conducted through a role of process consultancy, that addressed: (1) anxieties at the inter-group level; and (2) relationships between students and…

Technological literacy is the primary goal of technology education. The systems approach promotes the understanding of technology education. Technology education comprises a study of four technical human-adaptive systems: communications, construction, manufacturing, and transportation. Six classes of inputs are required for technology systems:…

This curriculum guide is intended to provide a common core of competencies from which to design an effective secondary marketing education program. Introductory materials include a definition of marketing education, objectives, outline of instructional content, and questions and answers regarding the curriculum guide. These practical materials are…

Collaboration between university and public school educators is a strategy which has recently gained support as a part of the teacher education process and as a viable area in which to conduct research. This paper defines the concept of the culture of educational settings and asserts that school-university collaboration occurs in the intersection…

This document discusses the concept of a community school. Using all of the available community resources, a community school is a social service institution, and its basic goals and objectives are socially oriented. Within the parameters of a given community there exist many valuable sources of educational potential, both people and places, which…

The theories of several contemporary management theorists are examined in order to demonstrate that their administrative stance is that of a person-intensive approach to management. After exploring leadership theory and the positions of Douglas McGregor, John J. Morse, Jay W. Lorsch, Rensis Likert, Bernard M. Bass, William Reddin, George H. Rice,…

An exploratory study was conducted during 1979 and 1980 to determine how Ohio teacher education institutions were responding to the state's newly implemented Standards for Colleges or Universites Preparing Teachers. The study's purpose was to provide an overview of two curricular areas addressed in the standards: human relations and managing…

This curriculum for licensed practical nurse contains 18 units. Each unit is divided into modules comprised of task or job-related competencies. A student competency sheet (SCS) provided for each task is organized into this format: unit number and name, module letter and name of the group of related tasks, and number and name of task; performance…