Intended for teachers and administrators in trade, industrial, and technical education, the book is organized so that each chapter may stand on its own. A broad spectrum of areas is covered in the 13 chapters: (1) historical background; (2) trade and industrial education and the labor market; (3) definition and objective of trade, industrial, and…

The book recounts the history and explains the philosophy of Highlander Folk School in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. Devoted to social reform, the school has functioned in an unconventional way to develop leadership and participation in three social movements in the South: the labor organizing drives of the thirties, the civil rights…

The guide for orienting prospective teachers to career education opens with an introductory discussion of the needs of youth, the emergence of career education programs, and teacher education programs in career education. Section 2 discusses seven components of teacher preparation programs in career education: need, concept, orientation to the…

Although education frequently serves as a means of advance for underprivileged Americans, few Philadelphia blacks were able to take full advantage of this opportunity during the 1930s. These interwar years gave rise to a variety of economic issues that forced Negro teachers and public school administrators to choose between educational advantages…

The purpose of the six units in the seventh-ninth grade curriculum guide is to supplement, enrich, and reinforce the usual classroom instruction in social studies while introducing information about careers. The activities are intended as enrichment to reinforce a regular social studies unit. The units are vehicles for the infusion of occupational…

This analysis of the research outlines the history of the conflict over student rights--a conflict that has its basis in American political and social philosophy. The author views the tension between those who favor the expansion of civil rights for students and those who advocate a return to discipline based on the in loco parentis doctrine as…

This booklet provides a brief descriptive listing of programs and services, and materials and resources for black and Puerto Rican studies available at present, to be available in 1970-71, and in the planning stage. The services described are those of research, advisory, consulting, funding, and supportive categories. Part of the research services…

This teaching package or unit is part of a sequence of materials developed by the Latin American Curriculum Project. Concepts, key ideas and facts introduced in earlier grades on socio-cultural patterns are reinforced by this multidisciplinary approach. The major topic emphasis is the history of the periods since the beginning of the Independence…

This semester course has been designed as a capstone to previous sequential units developed by the Latin American Curriculum Project. It originally consisted of five units, however, two formerly optional units are now included in the packet. The development of understanding of contemporary Latin America-its history and culture, its contemporary…

A variety of teaching materials, developed at an institute for training teachers of disadvantaged youth in rural (predominately Indian) schools, is provided in this handbook designed for teachers of disadvantaged youth. Ideas for bulletin boards are discussed in the first 25 pages of the document, followed by lesson plans (for kindergarten and…

All materials currently offered by Great Plains National Instructional Television Library (GRNITL) are described in this catalog. Included are more than 100 videotape recordings of courses which may be duplicated or leased by the user. In addition, materials on 16 mm. film and kinescope are included which may also be leased or purchased. Materials…

The five episodes from American life narrated in this unit attempt to show various methods of protest against different oppressions, ranging from revolt against the law by armed resistance, to getting an objectionable practice eliminated by a fresh interpretation of the Constitution through the courts. An important fact is pointed up--even though…

This document, the second of two volumes of a final report on a nongraded, phased, secondary school, presents the achievement instruments specifically developed as part of the operations research undertaken in that project. An intent of the project was to establish an acceptable procedure for developing instrumentation to support student placement…

This resource guide outlines one of four units designed for grade 1. Some background material on the Quecha speaking Indians of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador is presented for the teacher on the family structure and the economy, emphasizing subsistence, technology, clothing, division of labor, and sexual differentiation of labor. Major concepts…

Among the challenges facing the U.S. as it enters the 1970s has been one to public education to adapt its program to technological change and its social effects; this manual deals with a limited aspect of this problem. Seventh and eighth grade social studies instruction is the focal point of the effort, and career orientation is the theme by which…