This report describes a year long undergraduate course in community mental health, combining didactic and practicum elements. Reactions of installations and participants are reviewed and implications of this type of course model and orientation to training are considered. (Author)

Because of technological advancement, business education must add data processing and computer concepts to traditional areas of instruction. (CH)

Article describes a recent experimental course entitled Introduction to Humanities, the Arts and Social Science," as part of UCLA's Engineering Development Program. (IR)

Presents an outline for a course designed to acquaint the school principal with the reading process, since he has the primary responsibility for the school reading program and the great potential to improve reading on a school-wide basis. (MB)

Factors still impeding work in area of education for marriage are cultural differences, research quality, unfounded assumptions, curriculum development evaluation criteria. (Author/CJ)

Presents procedures, findings, conclusions and recommendations of a survey conducted in 1968 to determine the status of geometric content in the mathematics curriculum of 156 middle schools located in the geographical area of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Data pertaining to the mathematics textbooks and…

Adapted from an address to the 1969 convention of the Canadian Music Teachers' Association at Regina.

Describes an eight-module, high school chemistry curriculum (including outline of course content) which encourages students to envision chemistry as a science based on general, related concepts rather than on a discipline composed of segmented, isolated topics. Module 1 objectives, assignments, laboratory experiences, and test are available from…

The idea of stress can be used to explicate some major topics taught in the introductory college- level sociology course. Strengths and weaknesses of the approach are discussed. A brief annotated bibliography is also provided to aid instructors who want to experiment with the technique. (Author/RM)

Discusses curriculum/strategies used to teach a population education course in China. Sixteen lessons (one 45-minute lesson/week) are conducted to foster correct outlook and responsible attitude toward China's population situation, thereby promoting moral, intellectual, and physical development. Population education in other courses, student…

Describes an interdisciplinary effort that combines instruction in fundamentals of speech communication and English composition. (PD)

Describes futures programs at seven schools that (1) treat the study of the future as an investigation of alternatives; (2) place emphasis on process, not content; (3) see futures studies as a form of values clarification; and (4) display a consistent concern with the development of a sense of consequence. (MLF)

A theory of art education is suggested which is likened to the facets of Rubik's cube. The parts of this theory include understanding the value of art in education, giving visual form to ideas, responding to visual information, planning and teaching, and evaluating art learning. (IS)

To avoid the problems associated with treating elementary school art as an endeavor without standards, the Department of Defense Dependent Schools adopted an art and visual literacy program called "Another Look." Elementary teachers were introduced to the program through workshops. Workshops' content and teacher reactions are discussed.…