Discusses issues related to teaching international relations. Supports the position that teaching controversial issues is an integral part of any social studies course. Explores some controversial issues that might be considered in the classroom, describing approaches to teaching these issues. (KO)

Environmental issues that can be explored in social science courses include problems with potential to cause serious or irreversible change to an ecosystem or biosphere. Areas for discussion include: environmental attitudes, values, and behaviors; the environmental movement; risk perceptions; and the political economy of the environment and…

An American Council on Education survey of almost 360 colleges and universities found that few institutions have experienced controversy over course content, speeches, or faculty lectures, suggesting that reports of widespread efforts to impose "politically correct" thinking on college students and faculty are exaggerated. Some…

Helping behavioral sciences students succeed in their first course in basic inferential statistics can be a challenging problem for the teacher. This paper addresses this situation through suggesting a number of potentially helpful techniques for the quantitative teacher. (Author)

To establish an attribute by treatment interaction (ATI) between anxiety, stress, and response mode to programed instruction, a research design was used which consisted of two experimentally manipulated variables, stress and response mode, and two variables assigned on the basis of test score: the facilitating and debilitating anxiety scores of…

The Business and Society course should begin with a theoretical discussion of such issues as ecology, business-government relations, corporate philanthropy, and minority group employment. Then case studies should be used to allow the student to apply his knowledge to his own values and ethics. (SC)

Ways of teaching a sense of direction to mentally retarded children are described. (CK)