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Moon, Thomas C.; Brezinski, Barbara – School Science and Mathematics, 1974
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Definitions, Environmental Education, History
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC. – 1977
This document presents an overview of the basis for the program requirements applicable to local school districts applying for grants under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The study's basic research objective is to determine what additions, deletions, or clarifications are needed within the Title I legal framework to…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Definitions, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
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Dufresne-Tasse, Colette – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1975
This essay considered the conception and attitude of modern French writers on creativity. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Authors, Books, Concept Formation
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Jean, Marcel – Journal of General Education, 1975
Author attempted to throw some light on events in which he had been a witness and sometimes an actor, and to bring out the main lines of the surrealist adventure in the domain of the visual arts. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Artists, Definitions, Educational History, Painting (Visual Arts)
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Cook, Desmond L.; Lange, Robert – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1975
Authors distinguished between policy and programs, explaining how policy leads to a host of programs. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Definitions, Diagrams, Educational Research, Feedback
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Wolcott, Harry – Human Organization, 1975
Several issues related to conducting ethnographic research in schools are explored under 4 criterion headings: 1) appropriateness of the problem; 2) appropriateness of the ethnographer; 3) appropriateness of the research "climate"; and 4) appropriateness of expectations for the completed study. (AUTHOR/NQ)
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Anthropology, Educational Environment, Ethnology
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Nash, Paul – Journal of Education, 1975
Antecedents of humanistic education appear to be economic affluence and technological advancement. Historically, this phenomena occurred in classical Greece; the Renaissance; the agricultural and industrial revolutions in England; the Romantic period; the revolutions in the consciousness created by Marx, Freud, and the existentialists; and the…
Descriptors: Definitions, Economic Climate, Educational History, History
Dressel, Herman; Robbins, May; Graff, Ellis U. – Laidlaw Brothers Incorporated, 1924
This textbook is the fifth volume in a series of readers. New words are defined, and selections are preceded by suggested points to consider.
Descriptors: Textbooks, Reading Instruction, Vocabulary, Definitions
Dressel, Herman; Robbins, May; Graff, Ellis U. – Laidlaw Brothers Incorporated, 1924
This textbook is the sixth volume in a series of readers. New words are defined, and selections are preceded by suggested points to consider.
Descriptors: Textbooks, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction
Freeley, Austin J. – 1981
The committee that phrases the proposition for the national intercollegiate debates has a reasonably clear interpretation in mind when they phrase it. The next party to attempt to determine what the words of the resolution really mean is the affirmative team, which has a propensity to write a "squirrel" case that in one instance will find the…
Descriptors: Credibility, Debate, Decision Making, Definitions
Thiemann, Francis C. – 1979
Semiotic analysis is a method of analyzing signs (e.g., words) to reduce non-numeric data to their component parts without losing essential meanings. Semiotics dates back to Aristotle's analysis of language; it was much advanced by nineteenth-century analyses of style and logic and by Whitehead and Russell's description in this century of the role…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Definitions, Intellectual History, Logic
Sloat, Robert S. – 1982
To clear up some of the existing confusion in gifted education terminology, the paper suggests several alternative ways of looking at the terms talented, creative, and gifted, with particular emphasis on the last two. Noted among distinctions are that the gifted have a global intellectual ability, the creative have the ability to produce…
Descriptors: Creativity, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, New York, NY. – 1976
Because it is essential that, wherever applicable, new technologies be integrated with the developing public broadcasting system, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is committed to a policy which will seek to have communication satellites utilized to the fullest for the benefit of all engaged in noncommercial broadcasting and communications.…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Communications Satellites, Definitions, Equipment
Wright, H. Curtis – 1977
Comparing librarianship and science in terms of their objectives and methods of study, and their objects and means of mastery, results in the conclusion that they are antithetical as knowledge systems because the substance of librarianship is instrumental to science and vice versa. The resulting differences between them may be summarized as…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Diagrams, Library Science
Armstrong, Forrest H. – 1979
The author claims that the nature of the social sciences is to combine interpretive and empirical approaches in an attempt to understand human thought and behavior. He views the domain of social sciences as being different from that of the humanities or the natural sciences. Social scientists test interpretations by considering the extent to which…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Humanities, Intellectual Disciplines
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