This booklet presents an interdisciplinary approach to environmental education. Part 1 concerns environmental study areas. Emphasis is placed on defining environmental study areas, site selection and program planning, and preparing to use the environmental study area. Part II presents instructional activities based on the "strand" approach. This…

This paper uses the infectious disease model as an approach to the prevention of narcotic or poly drug abuse. It lists and discusses productive and counterproductive educational techniques on the basis of research findings and international reports on the outcomes of effective and counterproductive programs. (Author)

The history of the ecological model, which views the handicapped child and special education intervention in the context of intricate relationships, is reviewed. (DB)

Sees an overriding tendency in teaching and in academic writing to emphasize analysis over celebration, and thus to rush to judgment. Sees celebration as foundational to English education, the embodiment of the lived experience of teaching. Suggests that what moves teachers is not sermons disguised as analysis, but the sharing and testing of…

Explores the use of autobiography as a tool for increasing student participation, uncovering student attitudes and values, and as a source of examples for lectures and class discussion. Concludes that information gathered can be used to alert students to potential problems of using summary statistics and nonrepresentative samples when generalizing…

The various resources used by the students enrolled in the School of Educational Change and Development at the University of Northern Colorado is reported in tabular form. (HMD)

Two Chinese-American educators who separately toured China report on teaching practices in that country. (Editors/JA)

In view of the sixteen-year tenure (1933-1949) at Black Mountain College of Josef Albers, a former Bauhaus Master, and his wife, Anni, a Bauhaus graduate and teacher, exploration of the influence of the Bauhaus on this small, progressive, art-centered college in the mountains of North Carolina is warrented. (Author)

It is suggested that teachers may indoctrinate while they educate by reifying the rules which govern social relationship and implicitly denying the true negotiational basis of the relationship between teacher and taught, superior and subordinate, and government and governed. (Editor)

Comparative educationists are in the process of building up a special branch of scientific enquiry, with benefits both as a generalizing science and as an applied science. (Author/AN)

The author enters a plea for educators to use their new-found muscle to effect important curricular and methods changes in their schools. (Editor)

The author points out six ways that a teacher may be hindering a learning-blocked child. The author suggests how the teacher can help a child that has learning problems and gives six ways to help the child overcome his problems. (MS)

Paper delivered at the 18th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children, Chicago, Illinois, May, 1971. (CB)

The authors discuss small-group induction to the first speech given by students in a speech course. The authors have found that a practice session helps the students to gain confidence. The induction group is a practice technique. (MS)