This book provides teachers with effective strategies to help encourage all students but particularly young women who are apprehensive about science. Sections include: (1) Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Success; (2) Specific Tactics for Classroom Success; and (3) Classroom Activities. This monograph features creative activities in life…

This report used data from an interview study with international experts to examine the extent that peace education is relevant at various ages and to look at how the age of pupils affect the design of a pedagogy for peace. The two parts of the report provided replies from 50 experts representing 22 countries. Part 1 attempts to summarize major…

Emphasizing that the topic of culture in the classroom is always present, this chapter from a book on the teaching of adults, explores the meanings and relevance of both concepts of "culture" and "ethnicity" especially as they have significance for the learning situation. It is noted that a sensitive awareness of cultural differences should be…

This paper provides curriculum makers with an overview of developmental theory and relates the theory to instructional strategies. The section on socioemotional development addresses Erikson's eight ages of man, Kohlberg's stages of moral development, motivation and Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Taylor's stage model of creative development, and…

The development of knowledge and skills in the areas of mathematics, science, and computers is considered to be important for all students, both males and females. These subjects are prerequisites for many postsecondary education programs. Some of the most highly paid sectors of the labor market are those which require math, science, and computer…

A discussion of an investigation of the effectiveness of viewing three types of visual presentations over different intervals of time. (Author)

Techniques discussed include cultural asides, culture capsules, and cultural slots. Other devices, discussed in detail, are instructional games, inquiry techniques, andacting techniques. Content sources for French, German, Hispanic and Russian cultures are also provided. (Author/RM)

Research supported by OEC-5-10-297 and by National Science Foundation Grant No. GP-5114.

One of a series of reports on the International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (in Mathematics).

This handbook is intended to provide vocational educators with methods for teaching culturally diverse students. The first two sections offer information on cultural diversity in vocational education and the concept of multicultural education and on understanding the culturally diverse. Four principles of cultural diversity are described, and…

Fourteen studies were reviewed whose findings indicate that learner control of certain presentation characteristics interacts with certain learner characteristics. Thus, learner control is not a panacea for accomodating individual differences. Instead, some kinds of individual differences probably should be taken into account by teachers and…

This paper reports on a study which compared the background and teaching methodology of high school psychology teachers who label their courses either "humanistic" or "behavioristic." A sample of 154 humanistic and 119 behavioristic psychology teachers in Illinois provided data about variables including extent and kinds of professional and…

The purpose of this paper was to examine how behavioral characteristics (such as achievement level) of children may interact with gender to elicit differential treatment. Subjects were 31 men and 31 women who participated in two tutoring sessions with a fifth-grade pupil. Nine pupils, actually confederates of the experimenter, were trained to play…

The paper offers recommendations for an ethnic studies curriculum at the elementary school level which would be interdisciplinary in nature and integrate the basic skills of reading, writing, and critical thinking. In the social studies, for example, concepts of cultural diversity and universality can be presented in simple form in the early…

Three distinct theories can be set forth for viewing intelligence: a "super-intellect theory" associated with the belief in innate ideas; a sensualistic theory that posits no intellectual role beyond synthesizing of sense-data; and a concept of intelligence as a power to abstract, judge, and reason. Many chronic and current educational…