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Biddulph, Max – Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal for Pastoral Care & Personal-Social Education, 2007
Over the last decade, the relationship between boys, young men and sex and relationships education (SRE) is one that has been characterised by a history of problematising. One of the main difficulties lies with young men's engagement with the subject, and in this article I make a retrospective examination of recent classroom experience with young…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Males, Masculinity, Sex Education
Lomeli, Francisco A. – 1982
Those wishing to teach Chicano literature face many obstacles: administrative indifference or hostility, cutbacks in courses perceived as "academic luxuries," and pragmatism of students who see Chicano literature courses as too esoteric. Acceptance as an integral part of the regular curriculum is still at stake. Chicano literature exists…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Curriculum, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content

Lusk, Amy B.; Weinberg, Adam S. – Teaching Sociology, 1994
Maintains that efforts to initiate classroom discussions of controversial topics often provoke uncomfortable silence. Describes a classroom exercise that encourages students to analyze from a sociological perspective classroom dynamics that make discussion difficult. (CFR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content, Discussion (Teaching Technique)

Weitz, Rose – Teaching Sociology, 1995
Contends that interest in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has led to an increase in the number of sociology courses on the topic. Describes course content, instructional materials, and class activities used in a college course titled "AIDS and Society." Includes two appendices with AIDS "riddles" and answers. (CFR)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Class Activities, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content

Newman, David M. – Teaching Sociology, 1992
Describes an exercise for the last day of class that provides a sense of closure to the course. Explains that the instructor discusses major themes of the course, then evaluates his perfornamce along with the students'. Includes questions that students answer: what they will remember most about the class, and one thing they learned. (DK)
Descriptors: Course Content, Higher Education, Sociology, Student Attitudes

Ladson-Billings, Gloria – Social Education, 1991
Describes an undergraduate education course on teaching in a multicultural society. Finds students to be multicultural illiterates, based on their lack of knowledge of multicultural terms. Suggests videotapes and textbooks for building students' multicultural knowledge base. Presents field activities that promote greater multicultural awareness.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Curriculum, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content
Stewart, Robert – 1983
Based on his own experiences with public speaking courses, the instructor of a speech communication course for adults brings students to the task of speaking in front of the room gradually to reduce speech anxiety or communication apprehension. During successive class sessions, students speak sitting in their seats, standing beside their seats,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Communication Apprehension, Course Content, Higher Education

Matthews, Janet R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1991
Discusses the relationship between psychological ethics and the teaching of psychology. Reviews the manner in which ethics is presented in college psychology instruction through textbooks and specific ethics courses. Analyzes ethical psychology instruction principles set forth by the American Psychological Association and how these principles…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Evaluation, Ethics, Higher Education

Allen, Martin – NASSP Bulletin, 1983
Current scientific and technologiical issues should be incorporated into more active classroom, laboratory, and extracurricular learning so that students can perceive the future as personally relevant. (MJL)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Science Activities, Science Education, Science Laboratories
Gillis, M. K.; Olson, Mary W. – 1989
The study reported in this paper examined the effects of teaching learning strategies integrated with courses content on the study habits, attitudes, and mastery of course content of 122 students. Students enrolled in the experimental section of a freshman level course were taught learning strategies and course content; students in another section…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Content, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Becker, Susan – Instructor, 1983
This article offers ways to teach students about nuclear war. Suggestions include: (1) teaching problem solving; (2) presenting alternative views; (3) taking a factual approach; (4) thinking about possibilities; and (5) encouraging action. Included is a list of curriculum guides appropriate for teachers of intermediate grade students. (JMK)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Coping, Fear, Intermediate Grades

Bowd, Alan D. – Society and Animals, 1993
Examines the role of dissection in the teaching of secondary biology and environmental science, within the context of the development of attitudes toward animals. It was found that most students were required to perform dissections, several experience negative and stable emotional reactions, and teachers employed limited alternatives to dissection…
Descriptors: Biology, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Dissection, Environmental Education
Gaddis, John Lewis – 1990
This document addresses the importance of teaching contemporary history. The failure to teach contemporary history leaves students ill equipped to deal with the present and the future, and also ensures that they will have little interest in the history of other times. Because memory is the central organizing principle in peoples minds, the…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Higher Education, Historiography, History Instruction
Stoufer, Bonita – Journal of Business Education, 1984
Discusses the importance of word processing in the postsecondary secretarial science curriculum. Indicates that students must be provided with the background and motivation for job advancement along with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed for job entry. (JOW)
Descriptors: Course Content, Educational Strategies, Employment Qualifications, Learning Activities
Hahn, Carole L. – Georgia Social Science Journal, 1991
Argues that rationales for citizenship education in a democracy and findings from empirical research provide persuasive reasons for putting controversial issues at the center of economic education. Summarizes research findings on the development of political interest and efficacy in students. Offers suggestions on how to handle controversial…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Democracy, Economics Education