The first in a 3-volume series, this book presents instructional units on cultural universals for primary grade social studies. This volume focuses on food, clothing, and shelter, and includes information about how and why it was developed and suggestions about planning and implementing the units. Its content is elementary and familiar in that it…

This paper is about practice--practicing that takes place on a weekly basis among a group of artists who work on a day-to-day basis with elementary school teachers. The paper concerns itself with the complexity of "vague and misty overtones" witnessed as reflections in a mirror, according to one jazz musician, and with the nature of risk…

This Digest explores the practice of looping, a pedagogical strategy in which a teacher advances from one grade level to the next along with his or class. It describes how teachers and students in looping classes need not start from scratch every fall, learning new sets of names and personalities. By spending several years with a class, teachers…

Article presents a scheme that provides a common framework for viewing task analysis. (Author)

An account of the current work of the Nuffield Group for Research and Innovation in Higher Education, with details of visits to universities carried out by the group and working parties which have been set up to examine a number of topics in depth. (Author)

Describes an intensive German course developed at the University of Texas at Arlington. (RS)

Describes an interdisciplinary course prepared at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. (RS)

Describes a project in staging the Old High German epic, Das Hildebrandslied,'' at Southern Illinois, University, Carbondale, Illinois. (RS)

The process, not the instrument, is the key to developing successful contracts with students, claim the authors, who feel that contracting offers a unique opportunity to personalize and humanize instruction. (Editor)

The proficiency of Santa Fe Community College (Florida) in multi-media presentations is discussed in terms of their facilities, equipment, instructional use, and course offerings for media specialists. (RN)

A look at one application of videotape recordings in which records of individual students' performances in the classrooms are presented to their parents in video form. (AK)

Article gives 5 steps as beginning measures to construct a responsible and responsive frame of reference for supervisory services in approaching educational innovations. (GB)

Author warns against educational charlatans with their expensive quick cures'' for any and all educational ills. (GB)

The contract performance method was used in a college level biology course. The aspect of the course used for this purpose was to grow a plant and observe different characteristics of it. Course evaluation suggested that students liked the ideas of independent work, intrinsic motivation and the contract system. (PS)

Rather than write the usual book reports, the author's students were encouraged to say what a book meant to them in terms of pop art, collages and papier-mache sculpture. Article illustrations show the results based on specific books and subject matter. (PD)