The sex role stereotypes that are introduced to young readers on the elementary level are reinforced by the literature taught in the high school classroom. A list of the images of women taken from examples of high school literature could include, among others, the nurturing mother, seductress, sex object, and self-sacrificing wife. In all of these…

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the awareness and application of Black English features by writers and producers of materials for young children which represent black characters in a fictive setting. The study was limited to materials which were available to inner city children in Cleveland, Ohio, through libraries. Fifty-three fiction…

The new emphasis on combining language and culture teaching finds all teachers busy updating and improving their materials. However, feedback on how successful they are in their attempts is limited. Revealing insights into the image of Germany held by high school students can be gained from the 1974 and 1975 essays, written by applicants for the…

The nature of the social studies and their international dimensions are examined. Discussion focuses on the definition of the social studies and the role of knowledge and ways of knowing in the social studies. In contrast to the social sciences, the social studies are designed primarily for instructional purposes. They include the substantive…

The CMAS, a detailed taxonomy of questions that is used to analyze "Concepts of Inquiry" materials, is described in ED 067 308. A brief summary of the sequential K-12 Cleveland program is given in ED 064 223. Materials for the course are interdisciplinary with a subject matter base of geography focusing on investigating communities. The…

This report summarizes the work of the Yale Music Curriculum Project, the purpose of which was to develop an academically respectable music literature course to stimulate the listening capacity of the secondary school student through his recognition and analysis of musical genre form. Included are (1) a rationale summarizing the need for such a…

Review of school-community relationsuip studies in Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., shows that these successful undertakings were guided by several objectives. Most important among these were (1) to develop information about means of local school-community interaction and communication and their effectiveness, (2) to become…

To investigate children's ability to describe and make inferences about feelings, thoughts, and intentions that occur in interpersonal relationships, 60 middle class girls were divided into three age groups: 6, 9, and 12 years. Each group viewed two sections of a movie portraying episodes of social interaction. After each section, the children…

To determine what characteristics of poetry are preferred by high school students, researchers asked 16 sophomores to use a semantic differential rating scale to evaluate 120 poems selected from high school textbooks and current publications. Seven sophisticated poetry readers numerically assessed 10 technical characteristics of the poems to…

Over ten years ago, in a report on the process of education, Jerome Bruner dealt with the advantages of using film and other audiovisual materials. First he said that film can help use and develop attention. Secondly, he identified film as one of the "devices for vicarious experience." He said that film can be used as a dramatizing device, as a…

This content analysis schedule for the Bilingual Education Program of the Healdsburg Union Elementary School District of Healdsburg, California, presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project in its second year. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their…

This content analysis schedule for the Chinese Bilingual Pilot Program of the San Francisco Unified School District presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project in its second year. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is…

Covered in this handbook is the craft of reviewing from multiple points of view: the established critic on a metropolitan newspaper, a national magazine, or a television station; the newcomer who is trying to review all forms of entertainment for a small-town daily paper; the New York drama critic; and the freelance reviewer whose work appears in…

A proposal is presented for the continuation of ongoing research into the relationships between pervasive cultural trends represented by network television drama and popular conceptions of reality in the areas or health, behavior, and policy. The research leading to the development of the Cultural Indicators (of trends in television dramatic…

The primary purpose of this study was to identify the subject matter units taught, ascertain the length of time allotted to teaching of the subject matter units, and ascertain the extent of contribution made by categories of subject matter toward attaining national objectives of vocational agriculture in Wisconsin. The study also included a…