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Kaplan, Max – 1978
This compilation of essays presents a broad introduction to substantive issues entering into leisure studies, placing emphasis on the matters of values, goals, and lifestyles. Specific educational perspectives are discussed through such aspects as language, futurology, the arts and recreation, and human values and religion. Related social policy…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Fundamental Concepts, Goal Orientation, Interdisciplinary Approach
Goffman, Erving – 1979
A heavily illustrated discussion of the ways in which men and women are portrayed in advertisements is presented. The three essays which precede the 56 pages of illustrations discuss gender expressions, characteristics of public and private pictures, and gender commercials. The author notes that advertisements do not depict how men and women…
Descriptors: Advertising, Females, Males, Sex Role
Carper, James C.; Hunt, Thomas C. – Peter Lang New York, 2007
During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Protestants, Catholics, Home Schooling
Hinchey, Patricia H. – 1998
This book introduces critical theory, providing a practical starting point for teachers interested in exploring alternatives for creating a new kind of classroom experience, both for themselves and their students. Critical theory offers most educators an approach to education that is radically different from the norm. This book provides the…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Lee, Mabel – 1978
This autobiography of a woman physical education instructor covers the developments in her field from 1924 to 1954. The increasing interest in physical education for women, the changing attitudes and values over these years, and the growth of physical education organizations are the major themes in this book. (JD)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Autobiographies, Educational Change, Educational History
Oakes, Jeannie; Quartz, Karen Hunter; Ryan, Steve; Lipton, Martin – 2000
Education reform based on technical and rational processes often short-circuits reform because it is uncontentious, abstract, and provides educators with no legitimate ways to question the marketplace values and policies that drive much contemporary school reform. The perspective referred to as "betterment" is an alternative reform that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizenship Responsibility, Democratic Values, Educational Change
McCadden, Brian M. – 1998
The book explores how morality is constructed in school, with the aim of demystifying the process of constructing morality so that it may become a more overt, thoughtful, and purposeful aspect of schooling. The book's chapters are: (1) "Moral Journeys"; (2) "Engaging Moral Complexity"; (3) "Setting the Stage: Green End…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Hidden Curriculum, Kindergarten, Moral Values
Berman, Sheldon – 1997
This book synthesizes the research in diverse fields of the social studies relating to the development of children's awareness of and responsibility for social inequity and social action. The book addresses the issues concerning: the processes by which young people develop a sense of social responsibility; and classroom and school practices that…
Descriptors: Children, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Elementary Education
LeVine, Robert A.; White, Merry I. – 1986
Based on anthropological and historical inquiry, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy. It investigates cultural conceptions of human potential as they inform social and economic goals of education by reviewing the transitions of Western countries, Japan, and the People's Republic of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Educational Policy
Mundy, Jean; Odum, Linda – 1979
This book serves to provide a philosophical underpinning and overview of leisure education as well as an emphasis upon the approaches and strategies that can be utilized in enabling people to enhance the quality of their own lives in leisure. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavior Patterns, History, Leisure Time
Osler, Starkey – Open University Press, 2005
Educators, politicians and the media are using the concept of citizenship in new contexts and giving it new meanings. Citizenship can serve to unite a diverse population or to marginalise and exclude. The authors argue that, with the introduction of citizenship in school curricula, there is an urgent need for developing the concept of cosmopolitan…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Justice, Democracy, Citizenship Education
Grossberg, Lawrence – Paradigm Publishers, 2005
Caught in the Crossfire reveals how the United States has been gradually changing from a society that celebrates childhood into one that is hostile to and afraid of its own children. Today kids are often seen as a threat to our social and moral values. In schools, some behavior is criminalized, and growing numbers of kids find themselves in penal…
Descriptors: Children, Child Role, Social Change, Politics
Benton, Jean – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2005
"Using Action Research to Foster Positive Social Values" provides teachers with a unique framework in which to consider classroom violence. It uses actual case studies and working models done through classroom research to produce more effective classrooms that foster positive social values. The author lays out a theoretical framework for: (1)…
Descriptors: Social Values, Peace, Classroom Research, Action Research
Barnett, Ronald – 1994
This book is an exploration of the changing definitions of knowledge competence held to be valuable in universities. The central argument is that one ideology, that of academic competence, is being displaced with another ideology, that of operational competence. The book begins by considering the relationships among higher education, knowledge,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Structures, College Curriculum, Competence
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 2000
This book focuses on understanding knowledge and learning in the contexts of economic development and social cohesion. A preliminary overview is presented of the knowledge processes at work in different sectors, and the book identifies a number of ways in which microlevel or sectoral understanding of the knowledge-based economy is important in…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Representation, Learning Experience