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Meixner, Linda L. – Religion & Public Education, 1990
Presents a four-day lesson plan for secondary U.S. literature or Bible-and-literature classes, using the Garden of Eden story and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter." Identifies objectives, materials, procedure, and evaluation measures. Develops students' ability to discover analogies and irony in literary texts. Lists teacher…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Instructional Films, Instructional Materials, Irony

Lewis, Jonathan F. – History Teacher, 1991
Describes the problem of absence of evidence in historiography. Discusses the limits this lack of evidence poses for comparative studies by sociologists. Identifies steps in which events or evidence may be missed or passed over. Includes nonoccurrence, no surviving evidence, unlocated evidence, failure to note evidence, inaccurate criticism of…
Descriptors: Bias, Chronicles, Comparative Analysis, Criticism

Milic, Louis – Computers and the Humanities, 1991
Assesses the progress made in computational stylistics over the past 25 years. Discusses theoretical notions of style. Describes certain trends that emerge from relevant articles in conference proceedings and academic journals. Concludes there has been progress in the accumulation of data, the creation of databases and archives, and construction…
Descriptors: Authors, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Computers

Taylor, Cynthia – School Arts, 1991
Describes a game designed to motivate students to conduct art historical research. Required students to find artists who created art in four different ways, realistically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. Students chose ways to take collected data and work cooperatively to create a mural. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education

Alexander, Don – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1991
Examines difficulties of curriculum development in liberal democracies. Focuses on selection and choices in the official curriculum. Discusses theories that state social groups seek benefits through school curriculum. States mass access to contemporary thought causes curriculum development to be complex. Argues multiple views and ideologies must…
Descriptors: Criticism, Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Volante, Louis – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2004
Teachers typically receive the brunt of the criticism for poor performance on large-scale standardized tests. In order to stave off this criticism, some teachers have begun to provide instruction that utilizes actual or cloned items from these high-stakes tests. Such teaching to the test rarely helps learning and has a detrimental effect on the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Criticism

Dixon, Richard – 1994
One teacher's experience suggests that interpretive writing stemming from the reading and discussion of a literary work, in a second language, promotes development of higher-level cognitive skills. College students in an upper-division Spanish course in one institution are engaged in a writing process with three phases: preparatory; interpretive;…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
Boggs, Joseph M. – 1996
This guide aims to help students sharpen powers of observation, develop the skills and habits of perceptive watching, and discover complex aspects of film art. Organized in 16 chapters, the text, which focuses on narrative film, discusses film analysis in chapter 1 and establishes a foundation for understanding theme and story in chapters 2 and 3.…
Descriptors: Critical Viewing, Film Criticism, Film Study, Higher Education
Berlin, James A. – 1996
This book, the final work of a noted rhetorician and scholar, examines the history and development of English studies, and the economic and social changes that affect the understanding of the humanities today. Noting that while rhetoric once held a central place in the college curriculum, the book describes how rhetoric became marginalized in…
Descriptors: College English, Cultural Context, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational History
Youngblood, Janis D. – 1994
This study of Pakistan provides students and teachers an opportunity to understand the political, religious, and literary accomplishments of the Pakistanis. This project is uses slides to show the beauty of Pakistan and its people. A map indicating the distance between Miami, Florida and Pakistan is provided along with a 5-item reference list of…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Foreign Countries, Geography, Islamic Culture
Beach, Richard – 1993
This book offers teachers a convenient means of broadening their understanding of reader response theory and criticism and applying this theory to the teaching of literature in high school and college classrooms. The book is designed to arouse individual teachers' interest in reader response theory and encourage them to apply it to their teaching.…
Descriptors: College English, English Curriculum, English Instruction, High Schools
Romberg, Thomas A., Ed. – 1992
This books contains papers written on issues related to externally mandated mathematics tests and their influence on school mathematics. Chapter 1 presents an overview of the book, including brief abstracts of each chapter. Chapter 2 presents a summary of the overall problems associated with the need for valid information. Remaining chapters…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Calculators, Criticism, Educational Assessment
1991
Proceedings from the Sunbird Seminar for artists, art historians, and art educators from the California State University campuses are documented in this volume. The presentations included discussions about the national context for art education and teacher credentialing in California, the Snowbird projects sponsored by the Getty Center for…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Criticism, Art Education
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1991
This report presents results of a study of the administrative and governance structure of the California Maritime Academy and the Academy's relation to the California State University as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the State University's Trustees assuming more responsibility for the governance of the Academy. These responsibilities…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Comparative Analysis, Consolidated Schools
Fitzpatrick, Virginia – 1991
An inquiry method for learning art history assumes that students will be more interested if they conduct their own research about artists, works of art, and cultures. The collection of the following types of information will help guide their inquiry: description of the work of art, techniques and materials used, where the artist lived, purpose of…
Descriptors: Art Criticism, Art Education, Art History, Artists