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Applebaum, Herbert – 1998
During the colonial period, the ideology of work--the American work ethic--took root. Americans valued work and considered it an obligation to society, to oneself, and to one's family. The key to the agrarian culture was an ethic that recognized the importance of hard, physical labor within a framework of yearly cycles of tasks. The world of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Dream, Capitalism, Cultural Influences
Adegbija, Efurosibina – 1994
A study of language attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa, an area of 45 countries and over 1,700 languages, attempts to: (1) pinpoint attitudinal patterns towards European and indigenous languages; (2) give these attitudes historical perspective; (3) identify attitudes toward language use in education; (4) encourage language research on attitudes in…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Demography, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Attitudes
Association of Alaska School Boards, Juneau. – 1998
The purpose of this book is to serve as a tool for individuals helping to make Alaskan communities places where youth can grow up to be strong, capable, and caring. The book is built around the Search Institute's Youth Developmental Assets Framework, which is comprised of the key building blocks in youth development. The book notes 40 assets that…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Need, Child Development, Children
Petersen, Evelyn – 1997
To teach responsible behavior means to encourage children to be motivated from the inside and to follow rules that help themselves and others. This guide, part of the "Seeds for Success" series, provides advice for parents for creating in children an inner sense of responsibility by means of nearly 100 simple activity ideas designed for use with…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Child Responsibility, Learning Activities
Lee, Chong-jae – 1984
The major driving force for educational development in Korea is educational behavior and the educational perspectives that underlie it. Chapter 1 of this book looks at the Korean educational system and identifies the patterns of thought concerning education, the values underlying these patterns, and their defining implications for educational…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Educational Research
Crittenden, Brian – 1981
The essays in this book explore the balance between the communal and the individual aspects in the development of human beings and relates theories of education and learning to this development. In the introduction, Peter J. Sheehan offers a critical discussion of the ideas presented in the text. Part I contains two chapters on values and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Principles, Educational Research, Educational Theories
Williams, T. R. – 1979
In addressing issues that are common to all educational jurisdictions in Canada, the author has designated as "national" those issues that are manifest concurrently within the provincial and local board arenas and as "federal" those issues that integrally involve relationships between the federal government and the provinces.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Culture Conflict, Demography, Economic Factors
McDiarmid, Garnet, Ed. – 1976
This collection of essays focuses on the first ten years of The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and Canadian education and society. The essays are "Dimensions of a Decade: Canadian Higher Education in the Sixties," by Edward B. Harvey; "Graduate Studies in Ontario Education at the Three-Quarter-Century Mark," by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum, Educational Change
Hurst, Eliot M. E. – 1974
In his introduction to the course, Issues in Economic Geography, the author surveys the profession of geography, reviewing its history and its function in today's society and making recommendations for a "rethinking" of geography. He states that positivism, the search for emperically verifiable knowledge that makes an objective science of some…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Economics, Educational Responsibility, Educational Sociology
Montessori, Mario M. Jr. – 1976
This book presents the philosphical, psychological, and educational ideas of Maria Montessori. Chapters deal with: (1) the contribution of Montessori's ideas to philosophy, education, science, and child development; (2) the relationship of the Montessori materials to a child's intellectual, emotional and social development; (3) Montessori's view…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
McKay, Alexander – 1998
This book examines the issue of sexuality education in the schools. Chapter 1, "Sexuality and Sexuality Education: Implications for the Nature of Society," discusses the controversy over the issue. Chapter 2, "Restrictive and Permissive Sexual Ideologies," provides an analytical framework for clarifying conflicts around human sexuality that…
Descriptors: Democracy, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Liberalism
Hurst, Carol Otis; Otis, Rebecca – 2000
This book contains eight selections of literature for children in Grades 3-5, books which focus on themes of friendship and family. Ranging from picture books to novels, these selections are rich with possibilities for exploring topics such as loyalty, empathy, conflict, courage, fairness, responsibility, and diversity. Each selection features the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Elementary Education
Smith, Gregory A. – 1992
Ecological constraints will soon bring economic growth to an abrupt end. Chapter 1 examines how the discourses of recent educational reform movements ignore the reality of ecological limits and are dominated by concerns of national and individual economic expansion that are impossible to sustain. Chapters 2 and 3 outline the philosophical history…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Depleted Resources, Economic Progress, Educational Philosophy
Goodlad, John I. – 1997
This book about the relation of education to society has as its thesis that the proper context for education is a politically and socially democratic one. The first chapter considers what education is and is followed by chapters discussing the relationship of education to democracy, community, schooling, its conditions, and the self. Throughout…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Democracy, Democratic Values, Educational Change
Bonta, Bruce D. – 1993
This annotated bibliography includes 438 selected references to books, journal articles, essays within edited volumes, and dissertations that provide significant information about peaceful societies. Peaceful societies are groups that have developed harmonious social structures that allow them to get along with each other, and with outsiders,…
Descriptors: Aggression, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Rearing
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