Comparison of low and middle socioeconomic-status mothers shows distinct differences in teaching styles, and indicates why low income children often have difficulty adapting to the middle income school system. (Author/SP)

Three groups of children who had completed the first grade and were in a summer language improvement program were studied with regard to gain in reading achievement differences in teaching style and the effects of race of the teacher. (NH)

Instruction in the humanities has reached a cultural impasse. The problem lies in finding a way to center the lore of a culture in any given curriculum. (CK)

Discusses techniques for the observation, coding, and analysis of classroom behaviors. Identifies three major approaches as belonging respectively to (1) the behaviorist, (2) social-emotional, and (3) cognitive activity categories. The science teacher is encouraged to look at his own teaching behaviors as data for empirical study. (LC)

The approach to the organisation of learning resources that has been outlined in this article offers the possibility of a more embracing concept of educational technology, combining both the task and the human relations orientations associated with the competing educational technologies current today. (Author)

An account of a lesson on Shelley to disadvantaged students. Concludes that such lessons can in themselves be successful, but that disadvantaged students would be better served by reading literature more immediately rewarding to them than the English classics. (Author/JB)

Describes three organizational patterns for elementary school science field trips. Comparison by chart form is made of teacher oriented, modified, and student oriented excursions. (JM)

Knowledge of a teacher's conceptual system can be used to predict teaching styles in the handling of information and the applying of sanctions. (DG)

This paper is based on a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. (DR)

Discusses maternal, therapeutic and instructional teacher role models and effects of teaching styles on preschool children. Suggests need for preschool educators to be more sensitive to parents' goals, which may be more instructional and control oriented than the teacher's. (NH)