Education & Pedagogy

Physical activities, games, sports, teaching methods, and other topics concerning the physical education of students from kindergarten through eighth grade are discussed in this collection of 40 papers. (CJ)

The music, art, and physical education areas can lay the groundwork for the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. For example, music instruction develops receptive, auditory, visual, emotional, and mathematical areas. Art instruction emphasizes eye-hand coordination, creativity, concentration, spatial relationships, planning, and listening skills. Finally, physical education reinforces controlled movement, balance, concentration, coordination, listening skills, and group interaction. (Author/KC)

This bibliography provides a survey of current published research in urban education. It is divided into the following topics: (1) general works on urban education; (2) educating urban youth; (3) fiscal priorities in urban education; (4) emerging (school-community) partnerships; (5) political and legal realities confronting urban education; and (6) strategies in school management for urban school systems. Approximately 150 books, articles, and reports are cited. (GC)

Presented at the California Federation Conference of The Council for Exceptional Children in 1979, the paper discusses the mainstreaming of handicapped students into regular physical education classes. The need for and purpose of mainstreaming handicapped students into regular physical education classes are examined, and specific mainstreaming procedures are reviewed. Evaluation during mainstreaming is also considered. An assessment evaluation checklist and a sample physical education teacher evaluation questionnaire are appended. (DLS)

This annotated bibliography lists materials in the field of energy that would be of use to vocational and career educators. Materials included in the guide focus on areas such as solar energy, energy and agriculture, natural energy sources, and energy and the environment. All materials listed are available on a thirty-day loan from East Central Curriculum Management Center. (LRA)

Requirements for advanced specialization in the learning handicapped special education program at Dominican College are presented here. Requirements center around the following curricular areas: the learning handicapped child, student teaching the learning handicappped, and teaching strategies for the learning handicapped. Twenty specific requirements are identified along with goals and objectives. Evaluation forms are included with each competency requirement. (DS)

This paper reports on the status of educational equity and equality in Thailand. Empirical and statistical indicators are presented for preschool, elementary, secondary, and higher education. Educational attainment at each of these levels is compared by the sex, socioeconomic status (based on father's occupation), and geographic origins of students. The relationship between educational equity/equality and human rights is discussed briefly. (APM)

Over 60 energy education activities related to mathematics, science, social studies, and English comprise this manual for middle school teachers. Included are issues for discussion, puzzles, science investigations, story writing exercises, and energy cost calculation problems. Among the topics covered in these lessons are energy consumption trends, pollution problems, energy resources, conservation strategies, and historical perspectives on energy use. (WB)

This annotated bibliography lists materials dealing with consumer education for the preschooler. Part one deals with curriculum development, consumer socialization, and advertising. Journal articles, monographs, ERIC documents, conference papers, and research reports are cited. Part two cites books, pamphlets, and other resources on programs and learning activities for preschool and for kindergarten and up. Part three lists bibliographies and reference materials. (Author/RM)

In a legal education program being developed, the student's dual identity as a member of the Navajo Nation and as an American citizen will be stressed as the impact of customary law ways, the Navajo common law, and the common law developed through state and Federal jurisprudence as these laws actually exist within the context of life in Navajo land. (Author/FF)

Elementary school drug education in Illinois has undergone some major philosophical changes from a fact centered, hard sell'' crash program approach to programs emphasizing value activities and personal decision making about drugs within various health areas. Existing drug education programs have been selected from three different levels to illustrate the soft sell approach. (Author)

Millions of bluecollar workers have lost their pride of craftsmanship by being denied the status they enjoyed as artisans. In the 1970's four out of five jobs will require vocational or technical training. The St. Louis Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC) is dedicated to changing the image of vocational-technical education. (DS)

Occupational programs must be directly related to the real needs of the local community. Characteristics of community college students enrolled in occupational courses must be considered. Besides providing occupational education, the public community college should allow for special services such as contracting, community services, adult education, placement, and skills training. (DS)

The new focus for post-secondary institutions, whatever their name, is career development. They have begun to respond to the needs of their heterogeneous populations. Their programs afford students a chance to explore and try out career experience and their flexible facilities allow for flexible curricula with emphasis on individualized learning. (DS)

This bibliography, containing citations concerning educational history from English language journals dating from 1971 to 1973, lists articles by country. Articles dealing with history of education in the United States are arranged by period (colonial, nineteenth and twentieth centuries) and topic (post secondary education, black and urban educational experiences, educational experiences for women, and historiography and bibliography). (JH)