Opera star Beverly Sills discusses exceptional child education from her personal experience as a child musical prodigy and as the mother of two handicapped children, one deaf and the other retarded. (SJL)

Addresses instructional issues in the social studies in general and in religious education specifically. The issues involve the quality and type of teachers and behaviors/methods used in classrooms. Instructional problems include oversimplification in compare/constrast activities, overuse of guest speakers, teachers imposing personal views, and…

Offers an overview of issues pertaining to societal readiness to cope with the information explosion. The need for computer literacy, an examination of computers in education, and the role of the National Science Foundation in computer literacy programs are discussed. (MER)

Argues that teaching values in school is unavoidable and that current approaches to values education are insufficient. Suggests a more comprehensive approach which would include a concern for emotional growth as well as intellectual growth. Students must examine how people feel about things when creating solutions to moral dilemmas. (Author/KC)

Classifies social educators' attitudes toward indoctrination as those who reject it, those who support imposing procedural and behavioral values, and those who would impose substantive values as well. Concludes that we must accept the fact that some indoctrination is inevitable and that the issue should be carefully analyzed. (KC)

Suggests that educational philosphers have adopted Immanuel Kant's argument that 12 categories are necessary for a complete understanding of the natural and moral worlds. Concludes that using Kantian arguments to determine curriculum is logically invalid. The key to educational philosophy lies in inquiry into the nature of thought and…

Elaborates on the importance of including foreign language studies and cultural awareness objectives in social studies curriculum. Suggests students aware of national and international dimensions of culture will be likely to play a constructive role in promoting a humane and rational world social order. Journal available from The Social Studies…

Identifies four principal conditions which might aggravate a crisis in instructional materials and programs--declining enrollment, inflationary fixed costs, increased teacher salaries and fringe benefits, and the back to basics movement. Suggests criteria to help teachers select textbooks, including seadability, appropriateness, and flexibility.…

In spite of considerable talk about expanding or narrowing social studies goals and approaches regarding citizenship education, things are much the same in the social studies classroom. Suggests that a core goal of citizenship education in a democratic society helps students understand and recognize choices. Journal available from The Social…

Ponders issues related to communications history, including characteristics of effective communications history teachers, the nature of historical truth, the ties of history to the humanities, the relationship between the personal and the professional lives of communications historians, and criticisms of communications historians. (GT)

Physical exercise is a crucial but often neglected part of any recreation program for the elderly. The efforts of one senior citizen center to improve this situation are described. (LH)

Maintains that ineffective and ungrammatical writing by college students is unacceptable and suggests how political science teachers on the college level can help students improve their writing skills in conjunction with the substantive purposes of a political science course. (Author/DB)

Critiques a recent article in the J. Econ. Ed. by Richard B. McKenzie (Fall, 1977) which suggested that basic economic understanding is essential to good citizenship. (DB)

Suggests how to incorporate conventional textbooks into innovational teaching in high school social studies courses. Suggestions include: ask students to alter time lines in textbooks according to their own interests, examine bias of textbook author, react to author's language, and focus on daily life during a particular historical period. (DB)

The necessity for physical education and parks administration professionals to hold doctoral degrees is reexamined. (LH)