Based on a survey of examinations in drama, discusses principles, practices, and issues raised by the findings. (AA)

Argues that as long as intermediate education is seen merely as a no-man's land between elementary and secondary education, switching to middle schools will not remedy the shortcomings of junior high schools. (JG)

The article addresses those issues raised when bilingual education and school desegregation occur in the same school district. It is written to "demonstrate that the operation of bilingual education programs in desegregated settings is far from being an ill-operated proposal". (Author/NQ)

A generic model of experiential instructional methods is presented illustrating (1) forms of these activities and their interrelationships; (2) a classification scheme for examining their components and interrelationships; (3) relationships between structures and outcomes; and (4) methods for matching instructional methods and objectives. (MJB)

The author discusses death education as one subject to be examined in teaching mental health development in contemporary health education. (MB)

The writer submits the thesis that there is an inverse relationship between the extent to which the physical education profession embraces the win-at-all-cost philosophy and its ability to defend its existence, let alone its requirement, in an educational setting. (MB)

A program was described whose essential aim was to see things at once both more acutely (structure) and more broadly (context), to develop accurate and alternative means for communicating one's particular visual awareness, and in so doing discover processes involved, making them part of one's consciousness and applying them to "daily" situations,…

The author describes the use of the task analysis approach in health education curriculum development and describes several instruments developed for this purpose. (MB)

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Describes the aim and content of adult education in the German democratic Republic, how it fits into the formal educational system, and how it promotes equity for women. (AV)

Describes a course in which student teachers become actively involved in children's learning experiences. (Editor/RK)

Presents the official position of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development regarding the objectives and rationale for aesthetic education and the role of aesthetic education in American education. (JG)

Argues that children need more than basic reading and writing skills to be successful. Advocates the teaching of the arts as an obligation to the development of a a well-rounded individual. Defines the aims and content of discipline-based art education (DBAE) and offers alternative approaches to implementing it in the K-12 curriculum. (BR)

The purpose of the study was to establish overall educational objectives and administrative criteria for the national Future Farmers of America (FFA) contests. Through a series of three questionnaires, input was received from a Delphi panel of 33 members that generated and identified objectives and criteria. (CH)

Current developments in military history are reviewed; special attention is given to classroom needs. One argument for incorporating a better understanding of war through responsible classroom teaching is that alternative sources of information often used by students to find out about war are so trivial and misleading. (RM)