This economics unit of study consists of 10 lessons. Each lesson sets out key terms (such as demand, scarcity, monetary costs, property rights, and cost/benefit analysis); outlines the national content standards addressed; lists objectives; provides teaching and discussion ideas; suggests sample interactive discussion problems and sample small…

Argumentation is treated as an aspect of communication theory and in light of audiences' social values. (CH)

Development by a university counseling center staff of a training procedure to help students interact productively in small groups to learn academic material is described. After refinement of the program (entitled Education Through Student Interaction), emphasis was placed on teaching faculty to train students by means of this procedure. (Author)

Described a course whose primary objective would be to give meaning and significance to individual lives by relating them to their collective history, a period from the early part of the twentieth century until the present, in which older people have lived.

The article discusses the task of becoming an effective college teacher. (Author/RM)

Discussed is a day program which has provided psychiatric treatment for 135 emotionally disturbed children under 5 years of age and their parents. (DB)

Eighty subjects were randomly assigned equally by sex to self-positive or self-negative discussion topic groups in which they either received or did not receive verbal comment from the interviewer. A silent interviewer produced less discrimination of self as a concept, and depending upon the positive or negative direction of subject verbalization…

Compared relative effectiveness of two group methods of communicating information relevant to the social, vocational and educational adjustment of institutionalized male juvenile delinquents. Both treatment conditions prompted more positive attitudes, behavior change, and less recidivism among participants than did the control condition. (Author)

During the first three months of 1973 weekly forums and other meetings were held, with considerable success, in Johnston County, North Carolina, to provide the residents an opportunity to become aware of and to discuss all aspects of the topic The Impact of Urbanization on Johnston County.' (SA)

Discusses the need for better communication and understanding between students and teachers, and between students and administration. (DD)

Discusses the use of a horoscope-casting laboratory exercise in the astronomy course. Indicates that students can fulfill three objectives: (1) summarize the planetary motions in the geometric universe, (2) be familiar with sidereal and solar time, and (3) be acquainted with the uses ephemerides. (CC)

Article presents an approach for use by community action groups as a means for changing society from an impersonal, super-industrial'' state to one more responsive to human needs. (Author)

Ten hypothetical problems are described which should enable students to understand fundamental concepts of the solar system. (PS)

Describes a general approach to the analysis of teaching in small-group contexts; guidelines are presented in a check list. (Author)