The anthropological perspective, one that makes the economic environmental-social relationships explicit, may provide the best vehicle for helping to understand problems confronting man in his technical, industrial society. (Author)

Semiotics, the study of signs, is a relatively new and highly controversial area. Symbols, icons, and indexes represent the three types of signs. Semantics, pragmatics, and syntactics represent the three basic semiotic areas, with pragmatics having a growing influence in oral language and reading. A comprehensive view of curriculum is implicit in…

The speech communication discipline is an excellent base for public relations education. Public relations is the communication of information or persuasive messages designed to integrate or adapt social institutions to the needs of people. Common functional categories of public relations activity run through virtually all public relations efforts.…

The document reports on the belief-assessment phase of a project undertaken in 1973 at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, to study curriculum processes based on the Curvo strategy. The Curvo strategy (named for a combination of the first letters of the Dutch words for curriculum, development, and research) is based on the assumption that…

In arguing for an interdisciplinary higher education curriculum in the arts (IDC), this paper points out that such collaborative efforts will help students to understand more thoroughly the interrelationships and underlying unity of the arts, to articulate their training more forcefully to the general public, and to engage more actively in…

This unit presents a five-day series of classroom activities designed to help students become more aware of the energy situation and their individual responsibilities toward it. Each day's lesson includes: (1) activity title; (2) motivational hints; (3) objectives; (4) materials needed; and (5) description of the activity. A list of resource…

Described is the development of a course that combines subject matter from introductory courses in biology, chemistry, and physics. The syllabus was written by four college science teachers, three of whom taught the course at Portland State College to 32 freshmen and sophomores. To evaluate the course, achievement tests and attitude surveys were…

For most universities, a serious film program is still far away. One of the reasons that the sudden interest in film expressed by departments other than Speech and Theatre has not led to a solid program of film study is that these departments are sometimes teaching film for the wrong reasons. Futhermore, the professors engaged to teach these new…

The major purpose of this project was to develop a "package" curriculum of Hospital Methods Improvement techniques for college students in health related majors. The elementary Industrial Engineering methods for simplifying work and saving labor were applied to the hospital environment and its complex of problems. The report's…

The purpose of curriculum scholarship is to increase understanding of cause and effect relationships pertaining to curriculum characteristics, development, and utilization. The increased understanding on which these various improvements in educational practice depend can be achieved through a combination of several scholarly approaches. Synergy is…

The project described in this publication took place during the 1974-75 school year in an elementary school (K-4) in Berkeley, California. The purpose of the project was to integrate the school yard into the daily classroom activities of the children and the staff. Included in the publication are: (1) a description of the environmental yard, (2)…

Environmental problems are complex, and involve the interaction of many factors. The author attempts to focus on the humanistic and human elements in connection with environmental studies and environmental problems. He examines the purpose of a humanities education, and nine elements of an ideal humanities curriculum. (Author/RK)

If we are to cope successfully with our dwindling resources, conservation education must be integrated into the entire school curriculum. (Author)