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Hutson, Harry – 1979
The purpose of this research was to study a school district in a small American city to understand who controls school curriculum in the local community. The research approach used was reputational analysis, a survey method whereby the reputed influence of leaders is measured rather than taken for granted. Also used was a technique developed by…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Influence, Community Leaders, Community Study

Taylor, Catherine; And Others – History Teacher, 1978
Architecture can be a topic in high school community studies. A program in Boulder, Colorado, is described as a case study. Learning activities include walking tours, library and city archive research, and slide shows. Tips for teachers and an annotated bibliography are included. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Architecture, Community Resources, Community Study, Course Content

Blandy, Douglas; Hoffman, Elizabeth – Studies in Art Education, 1993
Contends that environmental issues are shaping contemporary scholarship across academic areas. Asserts that art educators are familiar with the relationships among art, art education, and the environment. Explores ideas of contemporary ecotheorists and proposes an expanded concept of the community in relation to place. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Teachers, Community Characteristics, Community Study
Schug, Mark C., Ed.; Beery, R., Ed. – 1984
Seven authors contributed to a bulletin about using community studies to teach about the interrelationship of the local community with larger economic and social systems. "Young People and Community" (R. Beery and Mark C. Schug) addresses the need for the social studies curriculum to consider the local community, an area which is rarely covered…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Study, Curriculum Development, Economics Education
Kobus, Doni Kwolek – 1983
The community-based approach to global education has the greatest potential for involving students in experiential learning that will involve the total nature of the child--cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. This approach also has the greatest potential to help students achieve the educational objectives based on the Tyler-Taba rationale of…
Descriptors: Community Study, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Development
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Social Studies Education. – 1976
This document contains guidelines, objectives, and competencies of the K-12 social studies program for North Carolina. The primary goal of social studies instruction is to help each student attain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for becoming an effective and contributing member of a democratic society. The content focus for grades…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Community Study, Competency Based Education
Schug, Mark C., Ed. – 1985
Intended to help economics educators in grades K-12 foster in students the thinking skills and substantive economic knowledge necessary to become effective and participating citizens, this book is organized around four themes. Part I presents an introduction by Mark C. Schug and a section on "The Current Status of Economics in the K-12 Curriculum"…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Community Study
Senesh, Lawrence; And Others – 1976
A social studies curriculum project is described which presents a blueprint for a Colorado community social profile study and suggests ideas for design of a national community model. The purpose of the project, intended for use on the elementary, intermediate, and secondary levels, is to help students develop skills to deal with mobility from…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Study, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation
Clothier, Grant; And Others – 1978
This booklet discusses and offers solutions for some of the educational problems growing out of the diverse nature of schools in the United States. Chapter I describes the society as a multicultural one in which a wide discrepancy exists between ideals and practices. A multicultural society is made up of many groups with varying degrees of common…
Descriptors: Community Study, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Martin, George C., Ed.; Wheeler, Keith, Ed. – 1975
Seventeen articles about environmental education teaching in Britain are contained in this publication. Several case studies describe interdisciplinary approaches which are potential growing points for curriculum development. The book is arranged in three sections. After defining environmental education, the first section reviews objectives for…
Descriptors: Architecture, Case Studies, Community Study, Comparative Education
Muth, John W.; Senesh, Lawrence – 1977
This guide is designed to aid social studies classroom teachers develop and implement programs using the community as a social sciences laboratory. The document describes how to prepare a social profile of the community. Based upon the Colorado System-Based Social Science Project which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the study…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Involvement, Community Role, Community Study