The Committee for the Study of Education and Society (CSES) was formed in 1966 at the University of California, Los Angeles, to sponsor credit courses or seminars on current social problems. Criteria for the courses stipulate that they: cross departmental lines, provide a mechanism for making higher education relevant to society, possess a high…

An English class at Newtyle Secondary School, Scotland, spent four periods a week for 6 weeks on an anthological project entitled "hotel". Students assumed roles in an imaginary hotel community, wrote advertisements, brochures, and business letters, and participated in interviews, discussions, and dramatizations of specific hotel problems. Besides…

In this revised paper, analyses are made concerning the rationale for initiating the training of educational technologists. Self- and social-optimization is described as a tendency in the development of man's individual and social life. Education is referred to as an agency, not only in the development of life, but also in the continuity of…

The underlying theme of this paper is the relevance of the "package program" approach for the development of peasant agriculture in Southern Africa, particularly where there are livestock and population pressures with a declining soil fertility situation. In Rhodesia, full-time short literacy courses were held in June and July 1970, as a…

Learning stations were planned that combined the teaching of English skills with History content.

Many types of historical activities are described that enabled sixth graders to study the history of their community.

Describes how a teacher integrated a lecture on business fundamentals into a news writing course. (RL)

Encourages the integration of science into other subject areas and into current events as a means to increase the emphasis upon science in the elementary school curriculum. (CP)

The process of involving social work graduate students specializing in planning and administration in the design of management simulations is described. Focus is on the integrative capacity of the simulation to combine knowledge and skills acquired in both classroom and practicum experience, and a detailed description of a student guide to…

Describes the circumstances which provoked creative expression in writing by a seven-year-old in an English primary school, and discusses the school's flexible, humanistic environment. (BR)

Presents techniques to integrate handicapped students into the home economics classroom with the help of the home economics teacher, a special education teacher (resource specialist), and a "buddy" in the class working with the handicapped student. (MF)

Describes integrated approach to teaching the arts which can be utilized in single or multi-grade classrooms in rural settings by teachers who may not have a background in any art form. Addresses problems of time, preparation, and resources that hinder curriculum development by rural educators. (NEC)

Describes a program used in three Texas schools in which kindergarten children spend a part of each day writing. (FL)

Argues that the purpose of daily homework is either to prepare the student for the next lesson or to practice concepts and skills learned in the previous lesson. Suggests that teachers' homework policies must reflect one of these purposes. (SRT)