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Peer reviewedFasick, Frank A. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 1994
Outlines some of the ways in which the application of technology to increase productivity, the affluence generated by it, and the related structural changes in society have contributed to the creation of adolescence in the North American urban-industrial society. Highlights seven important structural factors that make adolescence essentially a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Compulsory Education, Cultural Influences, Family Size
Download full textProvidence Public Schools, RI. – 1968
GRADES OR AGES: Grades 4-7. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; regions. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into 13 chapters, most of which are in list form. It is mimeographed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: No specific activities are mentioned. The guide is intended as an overview of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, Geographic Regions, Grade 4
Pennock, Clifford D. – 1982
To determine whether social studies texts used in the intermediate grades of British Columbia (Canada) schools were easier than those analyzed in a 1974 study, the Fry Readability formula was applied to all the grade 4-7 social studies texts prescribed and authorized for use in 1979-1980. It was found that the British Columbia texts are extremely…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Research
