Demonstrates the variety of trucks and other commercial vehicles used to transport goods and services in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida community, attempts to broaden the students' awareness of career opportunities within the trucking industry, and to provide firsthand experiences in which students could use basic computation, communication and…

The paper focuses on the process and product of planning instruction for mentally retarded students. (Author/CL)

Reviews 15 books that assess the state of education and suggest areas of reform. (IRT)

Method for evaluating and selecting textbooks for school use. It is necessary to match the characteristics of tests to desired learning outcomes. (STS)

If one is concerned with education, one shouldn't spend too much time arguing about the adequacy of a particular philosophy or political theory in terms of its educational applications. A steady focus on social and political ends tends to treat schools, children, and teachers as mere means to those ends. (JL)

The author presents alternative learning models to Madeline Hunter's master learning model. They are (1) the Teach-Practice-Apply (TPA) model, which calls for active teacher involvement in each phase, and (2) the 4Mat System, which models learning as a combination of two dimensions--perception and processing of information--which explains…

Images of one's body, shared consciously or unconsciously by teacher and student, significantly influence all aspects of movement education including instructional philosophy, curriculum, and method. Discussed are the metaphors of body as beast, as machine, as objet d'art, and as child and how these metaphors affect instruction. (MT)

Defines educational policy and its function. Discusses the social debate surrounding educational policy in Finland, as well as the goals of the Finnish educational policy. States that ultimate success in achieving these goals depends on the ability to keep social policy discussions involving education open and founded on human needs. (CH)

This article attempts to emancipate the religious aspect of human existence from its accidental, historical embodiment in religions. The religious concerns being at home in nature, on earth, and in the universe. Ways of teaching this natural piety in a manner not connected with religion are discussed. (MT)

Several questions and issues addressed sixty years ago at the NCSS conference in Dallas are indistinguishable from present concerns, which focus on three concepts: citizenship, social studies/social science, and how to define social problems. Concludes that the social studies movement was predisposed to work at cross-purposes because of the…

Presents a model process by which school boards can set objectives while distinguishing policymaking from policy implementation. (CH)

Maintains that the individualistic, values-neutral, and information-based strategies often used to justify and promote health education fail to recognize structural inequalities in society which influence the health of individuals. Advocates an alternative justification based on the socioeconomic determinants of health and illness. (Author/JDH)

Presents what 50 fifth graders' said in response to a four-question survey on the goals, purpose, and meaning of social studies. Results showed considerable variation in the students' perceptions of social studies indicating either a lack of concensus or clarity in what teachers communicate to students. (JDH)

This paper argues that both the Holmes Group Report, "Tomorrow's Teachers," and responses to it overlook two major issues: (1) the ends to which the educational reform effort is directed, and (2) the definition of the term "profession" and its derivatives. (MT)

Discusses setting and evaluating objectives for formal patient education programs. (CH)