Practical work is an essential component of science education. However, insufficient approaches towards practical work can limit the potential it has for promoting both students' motivation and situational interest. One suggestion to solve this problem is to use alternative forms of lab instruction which are both motivating and easy to comprehend.…

Eight articles which explore areas of interest to teachers of anthropology are presented. Three lead articles investigate the application of anthropological concepts and methods to educational institutions, formal and nonformal, outside the United States. In the first paper, demographic socialization as a field of anthropological inquiry is…