As educators, we need to get beneath the museum approach to Indian life so that we may give our youth the wisdom they desire to deal with modern life in pride and dignity. Since our present educational system has proved incapable of aiding our youth in their search for meaning, it is good to hear Indian people saying "We want to control our…

This booklet traces the historical development of human education as it has been instilled into the young people of America from colonial times to the present and provides a future prognosis of humaneness in the schools. Humane education promotes humane behavior and is an important part of the humane movement in the United States, although until…

Compiled to provide a basic guide to secondary sources on Mexico, this bibliography cites approximately 414 books, articles, and selected dissertations published between 1900 and 1974. Arranged alphabetically by the author's last name, the materials, published both in Mexico and the United States, are divided into: Reference Works and…

The purpose of this paper is to show that the explanations of understanding as a nonknowledge concept, an "attainment" in behavior, and as a kind of theoretical knowing or "knowing that" which is exhibited by means of language propositions, are inadequate. It is also shown that the following assumption regarding understanding…

Applying the principles of American Pragmatism to college composition offers a solution to the general problems of program design, syllabi development, instructional effectiveness, and student behavior modification. American Pragmatism involves the classic problems of meaning and knowledge. These problems stem from the linguistic possibility of…

This paper attempts to incorporate the current research done on the rhetoric of social movements into a coherent syllabus for a basic rhetoric course. It deals with the adaptation of the tools of rhetoric at the disposal of the beginning student into a procedure for an analysis of social movements and provides that such an analysis give the…

In fall 1974, the Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI) was distributed to all full-time faculty and administrators at Oakton Community College (OCC). Responses were obtained from 98 faculty members and 13 administrators (84 percent and 81 percent, respectively). Results indicate that faculty respondents found Individual Personal Development,…

Symbolic interaction is the foundation for a theory of rhetoric developed in this paper. As manipulators of symbols, humans, unlike all other animals, use abstractions both to indicate (describe things present) and to represent (describe intangible things). Only human beings are capable of the elaborate systems of linguistic reference called…

This syllabus describes a course in the philosophy and methodology of history, focusing students' work on creating strategies for data handling rather than on data collection, storage, or manipulation. The first section of the syllabus is divided into eleven parts related to the methods and purposes of historical inquiry: general orientation to…

This handbook is designed to help educators develop an environmental curriculum for their school districts. An introduction to the publication suggests ways of using the handbook and states a philosophy of environmental education. Most of the remaining pages are devoted to 20 teaching cells, or units, on various grade levels, K-12. Each unit…

The purpose of this paper is to provide teachers with a rationale for teaching the mass media. It also contains a discussion of different methods to be used in teaching the media. The influence of the media on contemporary society is examined and the importance of the mass media in the educational process is stressed. In addition, the paper…

This paper argues that teachers of English may be reverting to a kind of doublespeak in elective English programs which reflects an unsteady knowledge of how to evaluate all English programs. The terms "elective" and "teacher specialization" are examined as they relate to the classroom experience. Labeling a course as an…

The four parts of this report are: (1) the purposes of evaluation and reporting; (2) relationship to educational philosophy and methods of teaching, including historical development, present reporting practice and criticisms of these practices, and alternatives to conventional grading; (3) the best way to report student achievement; and (4)…

Career education consists of all those activities and experiences through which one learns about work; vocational education, those through which one learns about a primary work role; and occupational education, those through which one learns to work in the world of paid employment. The three terms imply a progressive narrowing of purpose. The…

A clearer understanding of the capacity of research and researchers in the mass communication field is needed. In the past, when statistical researchers have found they cannot meet criteria, they have devised a new set of test characteristics. For example, when validity cannot be measured, researchers measure reliability, despite the fact that…