This booklet, designed for elementary teachers, contains ideas for involving students in firsthand experience with their environment and practical suggestions for preservation and improvement of their own homes and neighborhoods. The goals of this booklet are to increase environmental awareness and to help the students become responsible citizens.…

This paper discribes a comprehensive juvenile delinquency diversion program serving a poverty community in a large urban center, and attempts to evaluate the problems and effects of the program. The target population was primarily minority-group truants, aged 10-15, who had been in trouble with the authorities. The program included recreational…

This bibliography is based on the author's thinking and experience with implementing the unified education concepts through the team-taught Unified Studies Program at Boston State College, 1972-75. The purposes of the bibliography are to test a new approach to user-oriented bibliographical notes, provide information about how to find information…

This document provides a proposed list of programs and their requirements for Bachelor and Master of Education degrees at the University of Alaska. The programs are intended to develop graduates who possess a crosscultural perspective and sensitivity in their approach to education, with particular emphasis on the multicultural environment of…

This paper is a compilation of the presentations of six panelists from Brigham Young University describing an innovative career development program for university students. Unlike years past, when students were strongly urged to select a major course of study immediately upon admission to the University, the new program recognizes that career…

Speech communication is a distinct discipline, but one in a healthy state of conflict between theory and practice. The crisis in the speech discipline (and in academic generally) exists because speech does not present itself as a consumable value; quality program decisions are not made; speech is often conceived as only one subject matter; general…

This document contains materials for games which are intended to give teachers and parents of young children ideas for making learning games which will provide experiences appropriate to their interests and abilities. While the games may be used by children in small groups, they were designed primarily for the child to explore alone. The games are…

Professors at Eastern Washington State College participated in a two-day conference on the Development of Strategies for Incorporating Career Education in Methods Classes. Speakers from the areas of economics, foreign languages, industrial education and technology, physical education, psychology, sociology, and anthropology briefly described their…

The prepilot test copy of the career education unit is designed to provide 8 hours and 55 minutes of instructional time for learners. The major emphasis of the unit stresses the relationship between the school environment and society, and the need for structure and order in each. Five major goals and 16 performance objectives are addressed in the…

This document contains descriptions of 19 teaching programs which share the common goal of emphasizing human values as an important area of education in the health professions. This listing is the result and expansion of the Institute on Health and Human Values Conference. Three broad areas are outlined which the 19 schools emphasize in their…

The author's premise rests on the endless parade of public controversies regarding education. He specifically opposes the views of those scientists who feel that they, and their work, are being discredited and that the scientific capability of the nation is being dismantled. He restricts his remarks to the science disciplines. Rather than…

The main purpose of this study is to determine achievement changes that occur in fifth grade students using the social studies curriculum program, "Man: A Course of Study (MACOS)". The experimental group consists of 103 students using the MACOS materials, and the control group of 103 students using a traditional social studies course.…

This document outlines an interdisciplinary graduate program for unit leaders in the multiunit elementary school. Emphasis is placed on participants; selection criteria; program format; instructional materials; objectives related to curriculum, instruction, assessment and evaluation, staff development, staff leadership, and secondary objectives;…

Presented is the final report of a 1973-74 Title VI project which provided educational consultant services for approximately 67 preschool handicapped children in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Explained is the project's use of a medical, psychosocial, educational team approach to provide parent education, and teaching of handicapped children in…

This environment education curriculum guide focuses on the integration of environmental education into all phases of the home economics curriculum: textiles, clothing, foods, nutrition, health, grooming, human development, home management, consumer education, housing, lifestyles, and occupations related to home economics. The guide is divided into…