Eleven lessons illustrating different strategies for teaching about academic freedom and suggested related readings are provided. (Author/DE)

The principal purpose of this article was to identify supervisory approaches available to instructional leaders in education. Selected supervisory approaches served as the basis for creating the Supervisory Options for Instructional Leaders (SOIL) Model. Instructional leaders in a variety of educational settings could use this model. The SOIL…

The author suggest six methods of approaching Black Studies: (1) study of the contributions of Africans to world culture; (2) study of the influences of African culture on white culture; (3) interdisciplinary study; (4) research designed to test a hypothesis; (5) use of the novel as a teaching tool; and (6) use of historical materials in the…

A traditional college economics course and an experimental economics course where students may purchase lecture notes are compared for student achievement. (DE)

A guide to music and its use in secondary classes to explore social change and the future also offers individualized discussion questions, potential classroom resource people, popular songs and reading resources for the teachers -- all categorized in 10 future-oriented themes. (JR)

An analysis of current and potential future problems facing efforts to desegregate Boston schools in which a number of suggestions are offered to facilitate the process of quality education for all by adequately preparing community, parent, and school personnel and nurturing student interracial initiatives. (EH)

There has been a movement nationally over past several decades to integrate technology into extent curriculum. This is true both at the K-12 level and in higher education. The purpose of this study is to show what role science education has played in this effort (i.e., what documents, research or associations provide positions on technology usage)…

By looking at statements that authors make in their books, article considered what is meant by an inconsistency and how vague and incompatible assertions can be misleading as well as trap an author into canceling out his own recommendations. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the exploratory study reported here was to examine the nature of teacher-pupil contact in informal junior classrooms in terms of the teacher's method of talking to children and the teacher's conversational approach. (Author/RK)

The author examines the reasons for the current interest in local history and discusses the thematic approach as that most favorable for the study of local history. (DE)

The authors describe the development and implementation in British schools of their family history project. The student and his social setting, the childhood of his parents and grandparents, and the methods of the historian are combined for effective course content. (DE)

This article describes a study, undertaken by secondary school students, of a suburban housing development in their own municipality. The tasks of data gathering and the forming of hypothesis and conclusions are emphasized. (DE)

This article describes a simple in-class exercise in reading and writing that, by asking participants to write their own endings for a short narrative taken from the "Journal of the American Medical Association," prompts them to reflect on the problem of uncertainty in medicine and to apply the literary-critical techniques of close…

A review of a decade of development of educational technology: audio-visual aids, communication media and the systems approach to learning. (CK)

Surveys programs and techniques of language teaching in Europe both in industry and business and in the schools. (CK)