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The School Textbook Division from the Chilean Ministry of Education has carried out experience-sharing instances and reflection processes oriented to improve the quality of textbooks, adapting them to new learning strategies, to the demands of the school system as well as to the state-of-the-art in research in education worldwide. Since the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Seminars, Social Sciences, History
Herlihy, John G., Ed. – 1989
Textbooks have traditionally been the focus of classroom instruction, however, the role of textbooks has been increasingly challenged by various groups. They have raised questions about the quality and content of textbooks in U.S. classrooms. This document provides a program of a 1989 conference that addressed issues related to the role and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, History, Political Issues, Social Studies
New Zealand Dept. of Education, Wellington. – 1984
For the second of two volumes dealing with the effective use of instructional materials to teach reading, this booklet describes the participants and outcomes of a regional seminar on the use of reading instruction materials and textbooks held in New Zealand. The first section of the booklet provides an overview of the seminar, including…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, International Relations, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
Schmeltekopf, Donald D., Ed.; Rassweiler, Anne D., Ed. – 1981
This four-part volume addresses issues that concern the humanities in community colleges. Part I provides: (1) Martin E. Marty's discussion of the role of community colleges in promoting the humanities within society; (2) Mark H. Curtis' description of the current rift between vocational and humanities education and of efforts to ameliorate this…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, College Curriculum, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Tremaine, M. G., Ed.; Wagner, G. A., Ed. – 1980
Readability in distance learning, the cloze procedure as a means of assessing readability, and the preparation of distance learning materials are addressed in the following 14 conference papers: "Some Suggestions for Improving the Reading/Comprehension Skills of Students at a Distance" (Jean Anderson); "Student Response to the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Design Requirements, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedRussell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2012
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2011 proceedings, see ED518589.]
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Technology, Social Studies, Annual Reports
Leckie, Neil – 1984
The first of two volumes dealing with the effective use of textbooks to teach reading, this booklet describes New Zealand's "Ready to Read" program and how materials are used in the curriculum to accomplish literacy goals. The first part of the booklet provides a general overview of the country and its educational system and of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials
Brenneke, Judith Staley, Ed. – 1981
The papers in this publication will help elementary and secondary educators integrate economic concepts and tools into consumer education courses. Responses to the papers are also included. There are eight chapters. Chapter one describes the project that is the subject of this publication and that resulted in the national seminar. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Classification, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Economics Education
Kelley, Patrick M., Ed.; And Others – 1982
Articles in these proceedings of a conference of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication represent the views of professional communicators and academicians who share a concern for providing breadth and quality of preparation for present and future technical communicators. Among the topics discussed in the 17 articles are…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Masters Programs
Simms, Richard L., Ed.; Contreras, Gloria, Ed. – 1980
Five essays examine the responses of the social studies to racism and sexism in the 1960s and 1970s. The first essay discusses the general concept of pluralism and its relationship to racism and sexism. Textbook and curricular response and legislation relevant to racism and sexism are also considered. The second essay deals with racism in terms of…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Evaluation, Directories, Educational Change
Bartlett, Andrea, Ed.; Pesqueira, Virginia, Ed. – 1980
The ten articles in this volume focus on the challenges of reading in the 1980s. Specific topics discussed in the articles include (1) the freely selected books of fourth and sixth grade students, (2) a student author project that served to integrate the language arts, (3) communication apprehension and its implications for communication…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication Apprehension, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1985
The results of an APEID (Asia and the Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development) workshop on producing textbooks and other teaching and learning materials, especially in reading, for the first level of education are provided in this book. An initial overview presents the objectives and the organization of the workshop. The second…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Material Evaluation, Instructional Materials
Singer, Harry, Ed.; Bean, Thomas W., Ed. – 1984
Papers in this report were presented at a conference on text characteristics, convened as part of the Learning from Text Project. The foreword describes the University of California and California State University Joint Projects Steering Committee project to determine the relationship between ability to learn from text and academic achievement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria
Coolahan, John, Ed. – 1982
Educational issues concerning all levels of education in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland are examined in these 18 conference papers. The focus of the presidential address was on general education in the secondary school. The invited address discussed the aims and objectives in higher education. Papers dealt with the following…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
Gunner, Elizabeth – 1985
Educators from European countries were presented with up-to-date information about Africa. The seminar was intended to help teachers present the African experience as cogently as possible in their classrooms. The main topics of the seminar are discussed, papers are summarized, discussions of the working groups are presented, participants'…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Area Studies, Comparative Education
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