Describes cultural attributes of Latin America and Latin American youth and how law-related education can be used effectively in Latin American cultures. Provides a definition of justice and asserts that Latin America is an area where there are generalized situations of injustice. Includes brief overviews of six Andean nations. (CFR)

The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…

This article describes and critically reflects on an action research project used for professional development purposes in a Middle Eastern Gulf State. The aim of the project was to improve professional development experiences for a group of in-service teacher educators, who were English as Second Language advisers. The initial discussion…

As we engage our students in social studies topics--whether at the college level or the secondary level--we are charged with promoting habits of mind and thought that produce our country's citizens. If we are doing our jobs, we are insistent about finding ways to connect the democracy in our classrooms with the democracy in our culture, and thus…

Focusing on thinking skills which are basic to citizenship, the paper reviews definitions of citizenship from Plato to the present, discusses scholarly thinking about citizenship, lists general principles of skill development, and presents two brief sample lessons. Citizenship is interpreted as social interaction which is based upon global…

In 1976-77, the moral education project of Ontario researched curriculum and pedagogy in the fifth year of its program for the purpose of developing a systematic way of introducing values education into grades 2-13. The study helps teachers encourage students to reflect on their own values in the light of fundamental life goals. It is divided into…

This paper contends that the issues of constitutional government debated during the founding of the United States should be in the core curriculum of any school that seeks to educate students to become responsible citizens of a constitutional democracy. For purposes of teaching students, the issues debated by founding-era political thinkers can be…

The ways in which role playing and simulation can assist students to clarify their values and to develop more adequate values is described. (DE)

The values-in-conflict approach is emphasized as an effective method for developing student understanding of social problems. For journal availability see annotation SO 504 171. (Author/DE)

A discussion of the current position of social studies in relation to teaching technique and method leads to advocating a social studies curriculum that provides for relevance to students' lives, examination of social issues, and strategies to help students deal with values and value conflicts. (Author/ND)

Author attempted to show the shortcomings of the prevailing conception of the functions of educational research and proposed a redirection, one that has some precedence in art education but that is currently out of favor. (Author/RK)

This paper introduces four categories of knowledge: "the folkways of teaching,""local mores,""private views," and "teaching expertise." The folkways of teaching describe "teaching as usual," learned and practiced in the half-conscious way in which people go about their everyday lives. Local mores…

Nominal Group Technique (NGT), a highly structured group process that seeks to provide an orderly procedure for obtaining qualitative information from target groups who are most associated with a problem area, can be used to teach ethics in public relations classes. In NGT, members work in the presence of one another but do not interact except…

There are many forms of outdoor learning. In the UK outdoor adventures, residential centres, field studies, Forest School and play in the outdoors are all available to some extent for the three to eleven age group. Each type has distinct aims and purposes but there are however some commonalities which may point to what the special nature of the…

The author traces the direction that morality is taking today. As a result of this direction a new presentation and a new method of teaching morality is examined. (Author/DE)