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Download full textHorrigan, Joan E. – 1993
The instructor of a course entitled "Leadership in Meetings" used as a textbook of "Fundamentals of Parliamentary Law and Procedure, Second Edition: The Rules for Deliberative Assemblies," sponsored by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Despite a strong endorsement of the text, the instructor had some reservations. For…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Leadership
Peer reviewedHoffmann, Hans G. – Zielsprache Englisch, 1975
The current effort to produce realistic "problem texts" is here subjected to criticism. One controversial text is offered to stimulate criticism and opinions on the suitability of such texts for teaching foreign languages. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Textbook Content
Riehme, Joachim – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1975
Current emphasis on communication in FL teaching should not rule out the use of literary texts, for these reveal segments of human life and patterns of language. The treatment of such texts is discussed. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Literary Criticism, Literature, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedQuerashi, M. Y.; Zulli, Michael R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1975
Twenty-five introductory college psychology textbooks are analyzed for terms most frequently used, the textbooks which employed the largest number of frequently used terms; similarity among textbooks; and the relationship between readability and technical thoroughness of the texts. (Author/JR)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Higher Education, Psychology, Readability
de Varona, Frank – 1989
Entire generations of U.S. historians have ignored the role of Hispanics in U.S. history. Yet Hispanics have played major roles from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present. General Bernardo de Galvez, the Spanish governor of the Louisiana Territory during the American Revolution, sent supplies to the rebel armies. When Spain entered the…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, History Textbooks, Improvement, Textbook Bias
Glickman, Yaacov; Bardikoff, Alan – 1982
The degree to which Canadian history and social science textbooks inform and sensitize Canadian students to the events of the Holocaust is examined. Evaluated by a panel of independent judges and presented in comparative perspectives, 72 history and social science textbooks authorized for use in Canada's secondary schools were found to have…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Secondary Education, Social Sciences, Social Studies
Weaver, Constance; Groff, Patrick – 1989
The publication of the "Report Card on Basal Readers" has generated a wide range of reactions and this first document issued in the ARENA series focuses on two of these reactions. The two reactions articulated in this debate represent opposite responses to the "Report." The first section, by Constance Weaver, examines first the philosophy implicit…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Attitudes, Reading Comprehension
McConochie, Jean Alice – 1975
The relative frequency and sentence level use of syntactic structures in comtemporary written scientific English was investigated. Two thousand sentences from 100 engineering textbooks were compared with sentences from American literary prose by means of a computer program. The results confirmed the hypothesis that engineering writing uses a…
Descriptors: Engineering, English, English for Special Purposes, Higher Education
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. – 1984
The textbooks described in this document are written for or widely used in high school psychology courses. To help teachers decide which books to examine more closely, reviews are provided. Complete price and bibliographic information are included for each text, along with a description of accompanying materials, such as instructor's manuals or…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, High Schools, Psychology, Textbook Content
Peer reviewedCoste, D. – Educational Media International, 1974
A discussion of the cultural context of language teaching. (HB)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Language Instruction, Social Attitudes, Social Values
Baldwin, James – Integrated Educ, 1969
Descriptors: American History, Black Culture, Black History, Federal Legislation
Hobson, Julius – Integrated Educ, 1969
Article given on July 23, 1968 to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Arts and Humanities on S.2979, a bill to create a commission on Negro History and Culture.
Descriptors: American History, Black Culture, Black History, Federal Legislation
Bent, Joanne – 1981
A study investigated the readability levels of different editions of six college textbooks published in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s ("A History of Civilization,""Government by the People,""Economics,""Introduction to Modern Business,""Introduction to Psychology," and "Pscyhology"). The study also compared the number of pages and chapters appearing…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Higher Education, Readability, Reading Research
Underwood, Gary N. – 1974
The bidialectal freshman handbook will be the next gimmick of textbook companies, even though they will contain nothing new and will foster several fallacies. The information will be questionable, factually inaccurate and unsound because while no linguist has really been able to define dialect, linguists claim to have knowledge about the structure…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Nonstandard Dialects, Social Dialects, Textbook Content
Fuller, Rex M.; Goodyear, F. H. – 1976
Although widely used, the term "interpersonal communication" does not have a commonly accepted definition which distinguishes it from several other types of communication. This paper examines this lack of specificity, as reflected in basic textbook definitions of the term, with regard to three dimensions of the interpersonal process: materials and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Definitions, Higher Education, Information Theory
