This single-concept unit on garbage is a "do-it-yourself" approach to environmental education. The emphasis is on composting or microbial decomposition under controlled conditions since composting appears to be one practical way of handling garbage. More than 30 simple experiments show some of the changes that garbage undergoes. The garbage…

The first working paper for UNESCO's Interdisciplinary Symposium on Life-long Education summarizes for participants some of the problems arising from the evolution of educational systems in the direction of lifelong education, some of the basic issues involved, and some of the requirements it meets and the consequences it may have. The areas…

The report examined a pilot program for the early identification of developmental deficits by a multidiscipline team of psychologists, educators, and medical personnel. The team conducted a community wide project designed to establish contact with and evaluate the developmental progress of all preschool children in a low income rural school…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of recommendations and a plan of action presented by the Indian National Seminar on Population Education. Population education has been rapidly emerging as a new but important phase of the total program dealing with population planning. The report makes a clear cut…

Principles, objectives, methods, and materials for this elementary and secondary social science program are described in the booklet. Principles of this program are that social studies: is a body of knowledge to which all students should be exposed; should be taught with an interdisciplinary, conceptual, inquiry, problem-solving approach; ought to…

The content-process approach described in this k-12 teaching guide focuses upon knowledge as a basis for understanding and explaining that which is being investigated and, when practical, for predicting what may happen in the future as a result. A curriculum based upon this sequential interdisciplinary content process approach helps students to…

This bulletin offers information on nineteen Schools Council research and development projects contributing useful ideas and resources to elementary and secondary educators. These projects advocate an inter-disciplinary approach using team-teaching methods. Many projects overlap in themes, ideas and teaching strategies. Although the projects are…

As the terms "multidisciplinary" and "interdisciplinary" are frequently used in general systems literature without a clear determination of their meanings, the author seeks to show a logical and epistemological interpretation of their meanings in the context of an organismic model for curriculum design. Logical and…

This document contains papers discussing the status of aspects of mathematics education. A brief description of the establishment and operation of the Institute for the Teaching of Mathematics (IDM) is presented first. The lengthier second paper discusses the reconciliation of main aspects of mathematics teaching. The remaining five papers…

The technical report presents a chapter outline and thesis summary of an investigation of social science research institutes in American universities. The bulk of the report presents the thesis in four sections. Section I proposes a typology of organized social research units (OSRUs) in the 11 universities studied. Dimensions used to classify the…

This document is the first in a multi-document final report on the Multi-Disciplinary Program in Educational Research conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, September 1972 to August 1974. Part one of this document gives a brief overview of the entire final report, describing the three products emerging from the program (student growth,…

This document, the sixth of a final report on the Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Program in Educational Research, is a collection of three essays. The first--Notes on the History of Interdisciplinarity--by Judy Rosen, brings together and outlines the general points and findings of the literature that has been generated in an attempt to evaluate the…

An outline of fundamental definitions, relationships, and human responsibilities related to environment provides a basis from which a variety of materials, programs, and activities can be developed. The outline can be used in elementary, secondary, higher education, or adult education programs. The framework is based on principles of the science…

Psychological and anthropological approaches to the study of human behavior are compared. Strengths and weaknesses of each approach are delineated, and the need for a combination of the two disciplines is stressed. The article focuses on cross-cultural studies of cognition and reviews three recent books in this area. (RD)

The author developed a combined arts project with her first-graders in which the fine arts were treated as alternate languages for creative expression. Students first expressed themselves in verbal language by writing poems, then translated their conceptions into music, painting, dance, or pantomime. (SJL)