Role-playing in nutrition has many advantages as an educational technique, including building thoughts, facilitating flexible thinking, promoting awareness, and providing opportunities for practicing food-related behavior. The Curry and Arnaud model for role play is presented in terms of its components and how each component relates to nutrition…

The author explains why he feels that career education programs have been beneficial to citizenship education. This is because career education has focused on the world outside the standard curriculum, has given teachers more freedom in their teaching methods and materials, and has brought teachers and students closer. (CT)

The successful development of a basic movement program depends on the teacher's ability to recognize and to work effectively with varying levels of student motor and cognitive proficiency. (LH)

Teachers in all areas often get ideas that are important and worth testing. Few go so far as to do a research study, but here is one who did--and tells how it turned out. (Editor)

Describes various methodologies used at the Queensboro Community College, New York, to enrich some of the topics traditionally included in the introductory course such as union management relations, social responsibility and business ethics, internal organization structure, and small business management. (TA)

Discusses philosophy and approaches for relating futurism to home economics education and ways in which future planning can be incorporated into home economics curriculum. Describes objectives and activities for presenting futurism in teaching housing and child development. (MF)

This paper argues that critical thinking can help its practitioners better understand the issues in society, and that the development of critical thinking skills is important in today's teaching climate. The authors discuss the method involved in evaluating the validity of arguments for critical thinking, as well as the need for teaching and using…

Discusses common controversial issues in different college disciplines, such as the death penalty and drug legalization. Also suggests useful methods for encouraging enlightening discussions, such as verbal and physical cues, student-centered activities, and text selection. (SLD)

Writing reaction papers and journal entries has been a common assignment for multicultural courses. However, few individuals have discussed this technique in the literature in order to provide a model for those developing multicultural courses. The authors also discuss the use of reaction papers to address student resistance in multicultural…

Explores the effects of teaching particulate representation of chemistry on the achievement of high school students in terms of gender interaction. Indicates that females who were taught the particulate representation scored as well as males whereas those who were not taught the particulate representation scored significantly lower than males.…

Shows some of the conditions under which South African educators work and similarities to the conditions in the United States. Cites some features of English education under apartheid and then explains how progressive teachers are using those features for their own ends. (MG)

This article suggests that the surest solution to gender-role stereotyping in physical education is the development of an androgynous curriculum framework. Implications for long-term personality development and career decision making are discussed. (IAH)

Examines three curriculum models for teaching second languages. Each model represents a particular form of teaching, either analytic "skill-getting" (microlanguage learning), experiential "skill-using" (macrolanguage use), or a combination of the two. (57 references) (GLR)

Examined effectiveness of suicide awareness curriculum presented to 73 college undergraduates and assessed two methods of instruction: lectures plus handouts or handouts only. Univariate analyses demonstrated significant treatment effects for all dependent measures: Suicide Intervention Response Inventory, Knowledge of Suicide Test, Suicide…

A rationale for adding health-related physical fitness to the learning domains of physical education is presented, with suggested instructional strategies for including this domain in the physical education curriculum. (IAH)