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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
These proceedings of a congressional hearing express the sense of Congress that public schools should be encouraged to include a study of the holocaust in the history curricula. Included are texts of statements by: Sala Burton, member of the California Congressional delegation; Carol Rittner, producer of a film, "The Courage to Care,"…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Jews
Smith, Donna Ridley, Comp. – 1983
Over 700 reference materials, songbooks, and recordings on pop, rock, country, folk, blues, and soul music from the 1950s to the present are listed. The bibliography was compiled because the study of popular music is becoming increasingly important to disciplines such as history, communications, and popular culture as well as music. Entries are…
Descriptors: Discographies, Higher Education, Library Catalogs, Library Collections
Raaska, Helmi – 1993
This summary lists the holdings of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, which contains a variety of materials regarding education policy in the United States. Materials consist primarily of staff files created in the Ford White House between August 9, 1974, and January 20, 1977. A substantial amount of earlier materials is available in the…
Descriptors: Archives, Block Grants, Educational Policy, Federalism
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Laska, Vera – New England Journal of History, 1990
Briefly reviews 12 available bibliographies of Holocaust literature. Cites publisher information and costs. Evaluates entries on the basis of author's teaching experience and personal experience as a Holocaust survivor. Precedes bibliographical entries with a discussion of the Holocaust and resistance movement, identifying camps and estimated…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, European History, Higher Education, History Instruction
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Zinsser, Judith P. – History Teacher, 1990
Sees the United Nations Decade for Women (1975-85) as a series of events with revolutionary significance. States conferences held during this period produced significant documents giving legal recognition and force of international law to reforms. Describes the struggles at the Nairobi (Kenya) conference of 1985. Includes a five page list of…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, International Cooperation
Merz, Carol – 1997
This paper addresses the changing definitions of "community" as addressed in the research literature. Beginning with Tocqueville's description of individuality in the United States, the paper identifies the following designations for the term "community": (1) "Modern Communitarians"; (2) "Communities of Memory"; and (3) "Moral Commitment and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics
Barker, Bruce O.; Christian, Duane – 1987
This study assessed the extent to which information about Japan is taught in secondary world history classrooms in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. The sample used for this study was 475 world history teachers, randomly selected, in K-12 school districts scattered across Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. A 21-item questionnaire was mailed to each of…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Foreign Countries, History Instruction
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Lembcke, Jerry Lee – American Sociologist, 1993
Discusses classical theory as a modernist endeavor to apprehend the phenomenon of "unity of disunity." Presents three ways that classical theory approaches the philosophy views of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber. Concludes that postmodernism validates the relevancy of classical theory. (CFR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Economics, Educational Objectives, Epistemology
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Zweig, Ronald W. – Computers and the Humanities, 1993
Contends that the electronic generation of documents in modern offices will transform the nature of archives and, therefore, the techniques of historical research. Discusses advantages and disadvantages for historical researchers. Urges historians to express their concerns about these issues to the wider scholarly community. (CFR)
Descriptors: Archives, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Publishing, Foreign Countries
Pechenev, Vadim Alekseevich – Soviet Education, 1990
Critically responds to an article by Aleksandr Tsipko. Argues that Soviet economic development has been marred not by a failure to accommodate the human factor, as Tsipko suggests, but by a lack of individual self-evaluation. Contends that successful socioeconomic progress depends upon individual moral development. (CH)
Descriptors: Communism, Criticism, Economic Development, European History
Miller, Steven L., Ed. – 1995
This book is intended to provide educators with the means to observe and teach about the unification process in Europe. The book contains a collection of essays about different aspects of unification. The Preface, by Dagmar Kraemer and Manfred Stassen, presents a brief historic overview of the development of the European Union. Chapter 1 is the…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Change
Bertrand, Alvin L. – 1987
This paper identifies and describes development of rural sociological research in the southern United States. It traces the emergence of rural sociology as a discipline from recognition of problems of rural life in the early 1900's, points out that the northern United States predominated in early research, and discusses why early rural…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Modern History, Program Development, Regional Characteristics
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Nelson-Rowe, Shan – History of Education Quarterly, 1991
Focuses on the relationship between corporation schooling and the labor market in the early twentieth century in the United States. Follows the beginnings of corporation schools as industry began to provide its own shop training programs to develop a trained labor force. Explores labor market concerns, the effects schools had on earnings, and the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Higher Education, Industrial Education
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Theoharis, Athan G. – History Teacher, 1990
Follows development of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Finds the agency monitored dissident activities and investigated outside its defined jurisdiction with presidential support. States J. Edgar Hoover expanded the FBI's information-gathering procedures beyond legal boundaries resulting in a powerful, autonomous agency that poisoned U.S.…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Confidentiality, Dissent, Federal Government
Tsipko, Aleksandr Sergeevich – Soviet Education, 1990
Considers perestroika's implications for Soviet recognition of sources of human motivation. Critically examines how the collectivist ideology endemic to twentieth-century Russian history failed to consider human nature. Attributes Soviet economic problems to a disregard of the need for individual autonomy and dignity. Calls for a reconsideration…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Communism, Economic Development, European History
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