Public statements express positions on the present status and future direction of environmental education. (Author)

Advocates the study of the history of science as a means of relating science to other academic fields. Discusses the limitations of the case history approach. Suggests introductory science courses coupled with a history of science course. Indicates how a unit on the historyof genetics could fit into a history of science course and relate to an…

Program will cover Contemporary Chinese History, Society, and Politics; Chinese Language; Doing Business with China; A China Educational Travel Program. The program combines professional and general public areas. (NL)

Suggests conservation education may have failed because it was taught as part of science, not in an integrated curriculum, and by placing children in wildlands or nature centers, instead of considering their real environments. Alternative integrated approaches are suggested. Definitions of environmental education are offered. (AL)

Suggests that the exploration of values might form a bridge linking the sciences and humanities. Discusses problems of application of knowledge in both fields. Emphasizes the need for new values and political instruments with changing knowledge and situations. (EB)

The School for the Humanities of the New York City Summer Junior High Schools, having as its theme Contemporary Man, is described. (DB)

Provides an introduction to a special section on developmental behavioral genetics (the study of genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in behavioral development), discussing the potentialities of the interdiscipline and presenting an overview of the following articles. (Author/RH)

Contains suggestions to improve the quality of secondary social studies students' writing. For example, teachers should stagger expository writing activities over an extended period. The intended audience of the writing should include the student's peers. (RM)

The paper synthesizes information about epilepsy (definition and categories of seizures, types of seizures, and treatment) and notes its impact upon persons with severe/profound handicaps. The need for a transdisciplinary team in case management is cited. (CL)

States issues regarding interdisciplinary work, and discipline limitations, and notes three limiting perspectives that are part of the transactions between sociologists and psychoanalysis. Describes the ways sociologists have approached, been exposed to, and been influenced by psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge and an organized body of…

Describes a combined art and science study of animals in which fourth graders studied seashells. Students made contour drawings of shells using pastel chalks and experimented to see how different colored lines affected the appearance of their shells' shapes. (AM)