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Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Lincoln, Yvonna S., Ed.; Denzin, Norman K., Ed. – 2003
The chapters of this volume traces the changes in the discipline of qualitative inquiry over the last five decades. The collection serves as a textbook for training scholars in the history and trajectory of qualitative research. The chapters of part 1, The Revolution of Representation: Feminist and Race/Ethnic Studies Discourses, are: (1) Situated…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Ethnography, Feminist Criticism, History
Dow, Peter B. – 1975
The utility of the controversial elementary social studies program, "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS), is argued in this paper. A list of 12 charges made by Congressman John Conlan against MACOS, with responses to the charges, is presented. Specific passages in the student materials, films, and teacher materials are examined in context…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Anthropology, Creative Thinking, Cross Cultural Studies
Trimmer, Joseph, Ed.; Warnock, Tilly, Ed. – 1992
This book of essays offers perspectives for college teachers facing the perplexities of today's focus on cultural issues in literature programs. The book presents ideas from 19 scholars and teachers relating to theories of culture-oriented criticism and teaching, contexts for these activities, and specific, culture-focused texts significant for…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Carrier, Warren, Ed.; Oliver, Kenneth A., Ed. – 1980
This guide, a revision of a 1966 work by Robert O'Neal, is intended to encourage reading beyond the traditional English and American literature texts by making available a useful resource in an area where few teachers have adequate preparation. The guide contains comparative reviews of the works of 136 authors and of seven works without known…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
Pinar, William, Ed. – 1974
This book brings together the latest thinking of some of the scholars who are at work reconceptualizing the meaning of the field of curriculum. William Pinar explores a phenomenological approach to the main theme of the book, drawing heavily on psychoanalytic theory. Robert Starratt discusses futurological work in the context of curriculum theory…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Culture Conflict, Curriculum Design
LaDuke, Betty – 1992
This resource gathers together explorations of women's art from Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the United States as a stimulus for interdisciplinary discussion and investigation. Part 1, "Art, Ecology, and Spirituality", focuses on traditional artists from Borneo, India, and Mexico, whose symbolic images are linked to goddesses…
Descriptors: Art, Art Criticism, Art Education, Artists
McIlroy, John, Ed.; Westwood, Sallie, Ed. – 1993
This volume brings together a collection of writings from 1946-61 by Raymond Williams, a British university adult educator. Section 1 is a brief account by McIlroy of Williams' involvement in teaching adults, his intellectual influences, and the relationship of his educational and intellectual life to his personal experience and political…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. – 1996
This curriculum handbook uses a discipline based art education (DBAE) approach, and includes lessons appropriate for use with students in grades 3-12. Five units address themes of universally experienced emotions: love, anguish, awe, triumph, and joy. Art exemplars are draw from among the international cultures represented in the High Museum of…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation