Computers can provide four kinds of help to practicing writers: (1) data storage and retrieval, (2) computer-assisted instruction and text feedback, (3) utility or word processing programs, and (4) telecommunications capability. Writing teachers must incorporate certain values into the planning of computer applications in the writing curriculum.…

The old saying, that a single spark can start a prairie fire, appears in many forms and in different cultures carrying a range of shifting implications and meanings. In this article, William Ayers writes that in some instances, prairie fires are not always catastrophic. They are naturally occurring events necessary and renewing; removing the thick…

This article illustrates how the generic employability skills approach to critical thinking suffers from serious conceptual and epistemological difficulties that impact deleteriously on both its practical effectiveness and democratic appropriateness. Unlike technical skills, employability skills, in this case cognitive capacities such as critical…

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that important aspects of aesthetic education are neither technical nor abstruse, and that elementary school teachers particularly can develop in children an openness to aesthetic experience. (Author)

Argues that a Pan-African educational system has the task of nurturing the child's own self, while at the same time instilling a sense of the collective: this approach is based upon the assumption that children who are self-confident, and who have a sense of themselves as creative people, possess an inherent will to grow and to discover.…

This guide is designed to aid high school teachers of business law in Pennsylvania to structure their courses. Specifically, it is intended to help teachers identify and place correct emphasis upon those areas of business law which will most nearly meet the students' needs when they reach adulthood, to help teachers to inculcate in the students…

This paper analyzes available published research on humane education. There is reliable evidence that attitudes of Americans toward animal life are strongly negative, and that it is possible that this negativeness increases as children grow older. Although there is widespread agreement that humane education is possible and desirable in our…

AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE NECESSITY OF TEACHING ABOUT PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION AS FACTS OF LIFE, AS CONDITIONS WHICH PREVENT THE FULL DEVELOPMENT OF EVERY PERSON, AND AS PROBLEMS WHICH MUST BE SOLVED IF DEMOCRACY IS TO FUNCTION HERE AND BE ACCEPTED AROUND THE WORLD. AN OUTLINE ON THE SUBJECTS OF PREJUDICE AND…

The inservice teacher education materials described are for teachers of all levels who wish to be acquainted with specific strategies for teaching value processes in social studies. Included in this informative report are the scope and sequence of module topics, activities and resources involved in use of the materials, ordering information, and a…

This study determined whether preservice social studies teachers, who received training specifically designed to help them learn to recognize and write four types of questions associated with eliciting student values clarification statements, would elicit and permit more of these desired student verbal behaviors than preservice teachers who had…

The work is the report of a study concerning the impact of the inquiry method of teaching on affective as opposed to cognitive achievements. Subjects were 10th grade students given a reading assignment in Asian studies. Control and experimental groups were asked to respond to questions about the material read. Attitude gains were computed for both…

This 10th-grade teaching unit on Robert Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" consists primarily of sample teacher questions and student responses designed to lead the student to a discovery of values and an awareness of the character development of Lincoln. Included are a scene-by-scene analysis of Lincoln's character, six quotations…

The Social Science Observation Record is a systematic observation system. When used to provide feedback to preservice social studies teachers participating in a teach-reteach microteaching sequence, subjects obtained a significant increase in value-oriented student behavior. When used to analyze printed transcripts of mathematics teachers,…

Strategies are presented in this monograph for dealing with the interface of geography and education, and for providing a focus on human values and sensitivity. Factors contributing to a concern over environmental awareness are discussed. Geographic educators--teachers, supervisors, or administrators--can use this aid in handling values and the…

The Valuing Process curriculum module is part of a consumer education series (grades 9-14; adults, including elderly) that emphasizes a process approach with a spiral organization. The process approach helps the student in a changing consumer world to function rationally and in a manner consistent with personal values, while the spiral…