A description of how primary grade children made their own soap is told in detail. (JH)

Appraises the relation between educational studies and educational research by asking questions about the research process itself. Approaches the question by considering how educational research in the United Kingdom began. (Author/RK)

Offers an approach to using film as an object of analysis for writing classes having no previous knowledge of film terms and techniques. Provides 19 study questions to stimulate identification and a description of a director's techniques to facilitate an interpretation of what the film means. (JG)

Argues for the validity and effectiveness of using film excerpts to teach high school English. Suggests various methods for using commercial films on VCRs to study themes, formal elements of literature, literary terms, and the aesthetic decisions behind film adaptations. (JG)

Discussions among college and university administrators on improving marketing efforts often revolve around questions about whether the marketing function should be centralized or decentralized. An impetus of these discussions is the increased marketing sophistication of many boards. Many trustees are strongly urging their institutions to apply…

The elementary teachers must guide children in applying reading skills in all curriculum areas, especially in science. (Author/NQ)

The curricular programs which characterize our schools at every level tended to remain mono-cultural, mono-racial, and mono-ethnic. (Author)

Provides the details of an art project focusing on the human skeleton. Includes samples of student work. (RL)

Describes an interdisciplinary approach to teaching music and poetry. (FL)

Advances a broad compatibility thesis that asserts that research activity can and does serve as an important mode of teaching and a valuable means of learning at the undergraduate and graduate level. Instead of a dichotomous distinction between research and teaching, it distinguishes types of institutions and educational levels in which research,…

Two studies involving 26 undergraduates and 126 military recruits investigated the presence of a coordination factor in a task with compensatory tracking and anticipatory timing components. Results suggest that the ability to integrate separate components of a complex task draws on a coordination ability but one that is domain specific. (SLD)