Vanderbilt University's 1969 EPDA Summer In-Service Institute for Training in Portuguese was a flexible, dual program in the fields of foreign language (specifically Portuguese) and English as a second language. Objectives were to provide: (1) adequately trained personnel to maintain and develop existing conventional secondary school Portuguese…

The third session of a 3-year annual summer Cultural and Creative Arts Program was held in 6 Monongalia County, West Virginia, schools for first-through sixth-grade pupils. Objectives were (1) the development of a sense of appreciation for the unique culture and resources characterizing the Appalachian region, (2) the development of a desire to…

The second session of a proposed 3-year annual summer Cultural and Creative Arts Program was held in 6 selected Monongalia County, West Virginia, schools for first- through sixth-grade pupils. Objectives were to emphasize the distinctive cultural character of Appalachia and to emphasize exploration and experimentation rather than mastery of formal…

This narrative report of a 1967 summer institute, designed to explore one of the ways of transmitting to future leaders an awareness, understanding, and tolerance for cultural differences in peoples from other nations, describes the relative effectiveness of certain methods, techniques, and procedures used in teaching experimental groups of high…