Describes a business communication teaching technique that uses role playing related to issues of the real estate business. Helps students to develop skill in persuasion, problem analysis, and decision making. (CH)

Presented is a comprehensive curriculum model for developing a K-12 values education program. The model includes a rationale and educational goals and objectives and discusses teaching methods and activities appropriate for implementing the goals. (Author/RM)

Summarizes a nuclear power workshop that presented techniques useful in controversial issues education. An introductory exercise and an overview of propagandistic techniques (listed in "The Propaganda Game") related to self-deception, language, irrelevance, exploitation, form, and maneuver are included. Outline of workshop presentation…

Many educational practices are based upon philosophical ideas about what it means to be human, including particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. This book asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be…

Presents an example of a value clarification exercise developed for a unit on pollution. In this technique students are given or prepare a number of items to rate from desirable to undesirable, or from undesirable toward desirable. (JR)

The theory and application of teaching moral education in the classroom are discussed. (KM)

The concept of law is outlined and five case studies are presented to demonstrate the teacher's role in helping students understand what the law is and how to live with it. (KM)

Outlines six units of study on science fiction. (DD)

Harold Rugg of Teachers College, Columbia University, died in 1960. Author presents an analysis of his ideas about creativity" which only recently have become the concern of sociologists, psychologists and educators. (MB)

If children can define right and wrong from their own value system, they'll be better prepared to decide on major problems like drugs and alcohol. (Author/ML)

Reviews the nature of the spiral approach in the teaching of mathematics and illustrates its use with an example of teaching place value by presenting eight different expressions of this concept. The spiral approach involves building an idea, concept or an algorithm at different times in different manners. (PR)