Designed to offer a developing American Indian Studies program basic lecture topics and source materials, this guide presents a model for both a quarter and year's course (three quarters) in contemporary Indian issues suitable for study at the college level. Major themes for the quarter course are identified as: (1) how the institutional structure…

This publication is the product of several workshops and is aimed at multi-ethnic integration of teacher attitudes, curriculum content, and teaching techniques. The 7 articles and 3 bibliographies, contributed by Native American consultants, emphasize recognition and alteration of bias in teacher attitudes, curriculum content, and teaching…

The difficulty of intelligently and systematically selecting from the overwhelming curriculum and teacher background materials being produced and disseminated in values education is a problem for educators and teachers. This book focuses on alleviating the problem, making the choice easier for users of values materials. Chapter one describes a…

The author purports the need to control technology for the well-being of mankind by understanding and cultivating its beneficial features and countering its harmful effects and misuse. The intent of the paper is to alert social studies teachers to the responsibility of bridging the gap between scientific and technological knowledge and civic and…

President Ford's pledge to bring education and employers together in a new climate of credibility requires the cooperative planning of the Departments of Health, Education, and Welfare; Commerce; and Labor. Sidney P. Marland's idea of career education is receiving a new thrust. The concept of completing an education within a certain time span is…

This unit on the social life of the Indian people covers aspects of their values, leadership, music, dancing, art, games, and fun. Intended for students at the intermediate and junior high grades, the interdisciplinary unit contains eight lessons which can be taught in any order or separately. Each lesson lists its objectives, activities, and an…

Three curriculum materials which draw upon the social disciplines are examined to understand the manner in which individual responsibility and authority are defined. The three include American Political Behavior, Holt Secondary Social Studies Curriculum, and Investigating Man's World. Curriculum content in each is found to contain dispositions…

Part of the "Becoming a Citizen Series," this book is the first of three Federal Textbooks on Citizenship which are published by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The series, first published in 1964, is regularly revised to reflect any changes that may occur in the government. The book teaches immigrants to speak, read, and…

Education should help students engage in intelligent action. In spite of considerable rhetoric on this topic, the relationship between action and education has not been closely examined in statements of educational aims, in designs for curriculum, in the daily experience of students, or in teacher education programs. This book builds a conception…

As part of the series of student materials developed by the Environmental Education Project at Florida State University, this volume contains three diverse instructional units integrating values and environmental education. Designed for secondary students, each unit contains lesson plans, objectives, and student readings. Unit 1 provides eight…

This paper examines how potential conflicts produced by ethical issues such as confidence and confidentiality can affect the research methodology of educational research and evaluation projects. Despite the differences in site selection, clientele, and relationship to treatment, both evaluators and researchers must make adjustments in method to…

The formation, development, and demise of a women's center in suburban New York are described. The women's center resulted from a conference designed to assess problems confronting women and to mobilize resources to meet those problems. However, after the formation of the center, a struggle for leadership and conflicts over the values and beliefs…

Designed for the participants in the Project SEARCH curriculum development project, this discussion guide describes the process of valuing through a group experience activity. The guide is designed to be used by people who might not know one another previously. As a group, participants view the process of valuing abstractly and also act out how…

Elizabeth College has been historically a traditional liberal arts institution in the career-oriented programs of business, education, and more recently the health professions. In 1972, the faculty adopted a new nontraditional educational program primarily for adults, called the Center for Community Education. The purpose of the Center was to…

Two models may be used to describe school board governance. The democratic model defines effectiveness in terms of democratic criteria. It is characterized by vigorous competition for school board positions; board members are responsive to their constituencies; the superintendent acts as policy implementor rather than policy originator, and a…