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Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Instructional Materials Lab. – 1985
This publication highlights some of the activities that have been successful career exploration experiences for students. The activities are in response to the Ohio Division of Vocational and Career Education's goal of improving sex equity in vocational and technical education programs. Five activities are described: Career Awareness Program…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Planning, Demonstration Programs
Smith, Armenia – 1984
This guide describes programs created by the Ysleta, Texas, Independent School District to promote sex equity in its high school programs. The programs described have been successful in leading both boys and girls to choose vocational education programs for jobs nontraditional for their sex. The guide describes the following five types of…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Community Relations, Inservice Teacher Education, Nontraditional Occupations
Malcolm, Dolores B.; And Others – 1985
Project Equity was a one-year project, funded by the Women's Educational Equity Act Program of the Department of Education, to enable the Saint Louis (Missouri) Public Schools to develop, test, and disseminate a curriculum on sex equity issues and laws. Designed to be integrated with law-related education programs in grades six through eight, the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Protection
Nova Scotia Women's Directorate, Halifax. – 1992
A low percentage of young women choose to pursue studies in science and mathematics although science and technology continue to dominate change and drive social and economic trends. This guide, compiled by the Nova Scotia Women's Directorate, is a national inventory of 92 programs in Canada designed to teach science and mathematics to girls and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Mathematics Instruction
Schwartz, Wendy; Elcik, Lynne – 1994
This directory provides a representative sampling of programs that offer training in prejudice reduction, conflict resolution, and violence prevention to young people in their schools and communities and to the people who work with them. Project profiles include the following information categories: (1) the organization's name, address, telephone,…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Directories, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Fritsche, JoAnn M., Comp. – 1984
Selected materials from two projects designed to engage college faculty and administrators in examining and addressing problems of gender bias in curricula and scholarship are presented. Following a description of the Women in the Curriculum Project (WIC) and the Leadership in Educational Equity Project (LEEP), this document presents a brief…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Equal Education, Feminism, Higher Education
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Brodie, Sally – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2006
This article begins by describing the use of GIS at a local scale within a single school, and builds outwards to review the use of GIS in the contexts of national classrooms. The single school is Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland. It is an independent girls' school for Years 1-13, well resourced with IT staff, computer hardware and software.…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Females, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Hansen, Elaine; And Others – School Science Review, 1989
Included in this section are articles on the following topics: science education for pupils with learning difficulties, the Engineering Council, differential achievement in early childhood according to sex, a peer tutoring program, and suggestions for involving students in recording their own achievement. (CW)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Industry
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Howarth, Mary – Young Children, 1989
Provides guidelines and examples of ways preschool teachers can use fairy tales to help children understand their lives. (BB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Dramatic Play, Fairy Tales, Preschool Children
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Desegregation Assistance. – 1989
This directory describes 25 innovative programs, in the public schools of North Carolina, which impact minority and equity issues. The following information is supplied for each program: (1) contact person; (2) grade level; (3) purpose; and (4) nature and scope. The following programs are located in the Charlotte-Mecklenberg Schools: (1) After…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Awareness, Demonstration Programs, Early Parenthood
Fritsche, JoAnn M. – 1984
This handbook was designed to help educators in higher education initiate a project that will integrate women's research, values, and perspectives into the curriculum and promote equity for campus women. There are six chapters. The first chapter examines ways to develop support for a curriculum project. Separate sections discuss rationales and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Case Studies, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Ihde, Thomas W., Ed.; Stenson, Nancy, Ed. – Journal of Celtic Language Learning, 1996
The journal for teachers of Celtic languages in the United States and Canada contains six articles. "Motivation and Gender: A Welsh Case Study" (Christine M. Jones) examines data on characteristics of one group of students of Welsh, focusing on gender-related motivational differences. "Morphological Objects" (Annette…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, College Second Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational History
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1986
Aid to teachers planning and implementing a child-centered prekindergarten program is offered in this comprehensive guide. After a brief introduction, sections of the guide (1) address the topics of separation and adjustment; (2) present sample room arrangements and suggest ideas for management routines, scheduling, planning, and ordering of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Abuse, Classroom Design, Disabilities
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1984
This catalog lists exemplary field-based program improvement products identified by the Dissemination and Utilization Products and Services Program (D&U) at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. It is designed to increase awareness of these products among vocational educators and to provide information about them that…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Guidance
Smoke, Trudy, Ed. – 1998
The collection of essays on the politics of adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction includes: "The Politics of Adult ESL literacy: Becoming Politically Visible" (Pamela Ferguson); "Learning To Be Legal: Unintended Meanings for Adult Schools" (Pia Moriarty); "The Relationship Between Knowing Our Students' Real…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Anorexia Nervosa, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques