The author describes the polytechnical orientation of mathematics instruction in Russian secondary schools. Present practices and future trends are discussed. (Author/RM)

The article describes the development of the first of a series of courses to update nurses' knowledge and skills. Discussed are: personnel survey, course development, objectives, speakers, instructional methods (multimedia approach), class scheduling and publicity, student evaluation, approval for continuing education units, and positive response…

Britain's Associated Examining Board for the General Certificate of Education believes that an examination taken by adults should provide room for the use of experience. The article provides two examples of the Board's courses illustrating that policy: "Living Decisions" (based on a BBC series) and "English Language for Mature…

Describes a successful research seminar offered for five years to second-year students in a master's program at the Jane Addams School of Social Work. Included are rationale, objectives, content, and teaching and learning experiences covering the function and design of information systems for accountability, planning, management, supervision,…

Examines the traditional role of textbooks in physics teaching, looks at new trends in physics teaching, examines use of books in new courses, and describes the Danish physics project. (GS)

A teacher education instructional model is presented and illustrated in which the student uses the auto-directional approach with contingency reinforcement to build from the principles of psychology a framework for teaching. He explores, analyzes, and evaluates skills, attitudes, emotions, and values that determine behavior for himself by…

Two graduate level interdisciplinary courses in industrial archaeology are described. (DE)

At the University of Oregon, career planning classes with as many as 128 students have shown that the large class experience can be valuable to each student. (Author)

Describes a senior seminar course in chemistry in which each student was instructed to write a 200 word article describing his senior research project to the general public. Explains the objectives and advantages of this approach. (GS)

Discusses the rationale for teaching comparative law and describes techniques and results of experiments with two kinds of courses at Boston College Law School: (1) Comparative Legal Analysis, a perspective course, and (2) integration of comparative law as another dimension into courses in a particular subject matter area. (JT)

Noting the limitations of clinical legal education when it focuses only on the learning of practical skills outside the classroom, the authors describe an experimental course in civil procedure designed to adapt clinical methods to the classroom by placing each student in the role of the lawyer in a specific case with class presentations and…

This paper discusses the problems and advantages of a course in Medieval Germany, including history, culture and literature along with language. Attention is given to issues and texts to be studied. (CHK)

Proposes a college course centered on research that has been done about college students. Author feels students, who are inherently interested in their own development, would thus be helped to clarify their own decision-making processes. (Author/EJT)

The author describes a procedure, Self-Awareness Through Characters in Literature (SATChL), in which certain literary works are discussed to help students clarify their own belief systems. Questionnaire revealed that SATChL was successful in significantly increasing the self-awareness of students. (SE)