The purpose of this 5-year aesthetic education project was to rethink and redefine the nature of art experiences offered to public school students, and to provide an integrated, aesthetically oriented approach. Contents of this first of two volumes (See also TE 499 838) are (1) a survey of recent curricular developments in American education (with…

Differences in social class and educational aspirations of pre- and postwar students of foreign languages are conjectured to have a significant bearing on currently declining enrollment figures in language instruction. Graphically illustrating the diversity of student-type and instructional objectives, the author discusses the necessity to develop…

This report gives an overview of History Education Project (HEP) operational structure and a summary of activities of its 13 regional teams. HEP is committed to the improvement of history education and to the training of history teachers for all educational levels. Some goals are to: 1) define objectives of history instruction; 2) identify, across…

This document presents the case study of a training program for elementary science teachers to determine if certain teacher training techniques would influence the onset and the quality of the implementation, and ensure the survival over time of an elementary science curriculum innovation. Teachers instructed in the curriculum innovation were…

This book is directed at professional educators in the Australian public schools with the specific objective of the modernization of instruction in the social studies. The rationale is that too little attention has been devoted to teaching about man's social world while teaching about the physical environment has been the subject of much…

In order to appraise the usefulness of instructional television (ITV) as the core component in instructional systems designed to meet the special needs of the educationally disadvantaged children of migrant farm workers, American Indians, and the inner-city poor, a study was made of the use of ITV programs to meet similar needs in other countries.…

Filmmaking, when used to structure the activities of an art program, can become a tool to enrich the educational environment, to detect and observe all types of physical phenomena, and to extend the limits of observation. Designed to stimulate filmmaking in the elementary school, this handbook documents an approach to adding filmmaking to a…

The 1968-69 evaluation of Kentucky's Rural Child Care Project had 5 major objectives: to assess the relationship between a child's attendance in a Child Development Center and his subsequent intellectual performance and academic achievement in elementary school; to evaluate the impact of changes in the Child Development Program itself on…

The design for an instructional program whose objective is the acquisition of English must be viewed within wide parameters. The dimensions discussed are those that must be accounted for by a designer of materials appropriate for particular learners. These parameters are discussed to make teachers aware of what to look for and what kinds of…

Instructional objectives of a three-year Latin program are stated in this curriculum guide. An individualized approach to instruction which takes into account the nature of the school, the means of fulfilling its objectives, organizational structure of the course, provision for individual differences, and the type of pupil progress required is…

For a variety of reasons, vocational education has not made it in America. Our high schools have not been able to make sure that every young man and woman who receives a diploma is qualified either for immediate employment or further education. To solve the problems of this situation, the Office of Education is giving major emphasis to the design…

In 1961, administrative personnel at Delhi College in New York observed that formal training programs for animal science technicians were virtually nonexistant. Response to this apparent need resulted in the initiation of perhaps the first 2-year Animal Science Technology Program in the nation. This two-volume report is the result of an extensive…

The purpose of this study was to determine the short-term impact of inquiry-oriented teaching materials on high school students' understanding of consumer education concepts and practices. In addition, the study sought to ascertain if a comparative advantage exists in offering consumer education courses at the preservice and the inservice levels…

This study is one of a series on cognitive behavior related to lingual types among Navaho children. The present work has aimed at gaining additional descriptive data regarding the effects of lingual types (compound bilinguals, Egnlish-speaking monolinguals, and Navaho-speaking monolinguals) on school achievement as measured by the Metropolitan…

This handbook presents guidelines for sequential career development activities which were developed for a fused curriculum at a 2-day teacher workshop. Enumerating the educational responsibilities of the career coordinator and the instructor, this instructional outline correlates concepts to be taught, educational objectives, and suggested…