A report on a project which places emphasis on classroom teachers as initiators and major developers of new Canadian studies curricula is presented in this monograph. A review of reported curriculum research focuses on these topics: teacher education institutions and curriculum development; teacher participation in national curriculum programs;…

This publication contains two separate reports. Part I, the report of the Anthropology Curriculum Study Project (ACSP), is an accounting of the time, money, and human endeavor involved in curriculum development efforts toward a course in anthropology for the high school curriculum. The document includes four reports of ACSP staff members and nine…

Listed in this bibliography by broad grade level categories are 660 reports of research and evaluation in economics education. "'Research' is very broadly defined to include fact finding surveys, informal evaluations, attitude surveys, and graduate studies as well as formal and tightly controlled projects." Entries are mainly from the 1960's, but…

This Supplement to "Research in Economic Education" (SO 000 262) includes 246 studies initiated since the publication of that 969 bibliography, as well as many that were missed previously. In addition, studies and projects which are now out of date are included because of their possible historical value. They range from very informal projects to…

Purposes of this research were to: 1) identify major characteristics of the "new" social studies (NSS) as perceived by methods teachers; 2) compare are-being emphasized perceptions with what methods teachers think ought-to-be emphasized; and, 3) discover relationships between what methods teachers think should be happening and other…

Educational research on the social studies since the 1960's, indicating that many changes have occurred yet implying that there is still a further need for research and improvement, is summarized in this booklet. Because the vast amount of research on social studies makes it impractical to report a great deal of it, many of the findings reported…