Grouse Creek is a small Mormon ranching community in the extreme northwest corner of Utah. A survey of that community was conducted during 1985 by a team of folklorists, architectural historians, and historians, with the purpose of testing the idea of combining in the same fieldwork a concern for architecture, folk arts, and folklife. The work was…

As many disciplines as possible should be used in the teaching of Indian Studies. In particular, creative literature adds another dimension to the understanding of Indian culture and the history of Indian-white relations when it is used in conjunction with historical and anthropological material. The serious student should read historical novels…

This paper examines the historical development of Women's Studies as an academic discipline. Principles of this education include a feminist perspective and an interdisciplinary approach. Students assume the responsibility for their own learning. Varied resource people are used in the classroom. The object of this feminist model is to define the…

Early issues of "School Science and Mathematics" were used to investigate the writings of women educators and their role in education. Identified articles by women authors and discussed how the integration of science and mathematics, psychology and other issues, and references to women were treated. (MNS)

Discusses the use of mathematics, specifically spreadsheets, to study apportionment in the U. S. House of Representatives. Topics include the interdisciplinary nature of the study, how population changes affect the distribution, different methods for apportioning representatives that have been used throughout history, and analyzing the data. (LRW)

Argues that the academic goals and commitment to interdisciplinary research as a rationale for the new University of Chicago Graduate Library School as described by Douglas Waples in "Library Quarterly" (1931) have yet to be fully achieved. It is concluded that a new graduate library school ought to be reinvented. (Author/EM)

As a writer and faculty member at Emory & Henry College (Virginia), Ed Bingham focused on land reform and the sustenance that came from the land. His concern for the damages caused by colonialism influenced the early days of Appalachian Studies. His work was interdisciplinary, with commitments to social justice, democracy, and racial equality.…

Describes how the diary of Ada Millington, a twelve-year-old who traveled with her family from Keosauqua, Iowa, to Santa Rosa, California in 1862, was used to involve children from a variety of socio-economic, racial, ethnic and national backgrounds in social studies experiences which integrated language arts and math skills. (JDH)

Tells how one fourth grade teacher used the Berkeley Children's History Trunk, which contains memorabilia from the turn of the century, to help her students understand the importance of artifacts in learning about the history of their own society. Describes how the children created three trunks representing their own, their parents', and…

This study was undertaken as a report on a relatively new kind of graduate program. It is intended to present the characteristics of existing general education programs in the humanities for comparison and appraisal. Since this study deals with a relatively new and still experimental field, it should be regarded as a status report, or perhaps even…

An analysis of the personality, scholarship, and teaching style of Frederick J. Teggart, a respected scholar and lecturer in the social sciences at the University of California Berkeley from 1919 to 1940. (SJL)

Discusses key aspects of a Marxist approach to ethnicity to demonstrate that the Marxist problematic, as a model interdisciplinary approach to ethnic studies, is the most effective framework for analyzing developments within and between ethnic communities in capitalist society. Shows why this model works. (JS)

Drawing from the literature of the 1950s and more recently published articles from the 1980s, this essay attempts to analyze the extent to which the field of developmental education has changed and/or remained the same over the past 30 years. Comparisons are drawn with respect to the following: (1) the cognitive and affective scope of…

This guide, intended for middle and high school classes, is interdisciplinary in approach and appropriate for civics, language arts, drama, social studies, science, personal development, and business courses. The material is based on and intended for use with the "Biography" television documentary series. The guide includes four lesson…

Designed for use in a one-semester course in U.S. history or literature at the intermediate or secondary level, this collection of the Civil War letters of Lewis Bissell, a Union soldier, is divided into two major parts. Part I (chapters 1 though 5) covers the period of time Bissell spent guarding Washington, District of Columbia. Each chapter…