This publication contains six lessons for elementary, middle, and high school classrooms developed by writers from Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, and the United States. The authors of these lessons were participants in the Training of Writers program developed and conducted by the National Council on Economic Education, as…

This publication contains six lessons for elementary, secondary, and high school classrooms developed by writers from Belarus, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and the United States. The authors of these lessons were participants in the Training of Writers program developed and conducted by the National Council on Economic Education,…

Economics has a paramount and overriding role in achieving the aims and objectives of high quality black studies programs. (DM)

Asserting that elementary teachers are going to become increasingly involved with economic concepts, and that economic education at the elementary level is at an important developmental stage,'' the author explains how economics can be included in the curriculum without taking other subject matter out, and suggests approaches to the training of…

Suggests that economic literacy will be fostered if economic concepts such as scarcity, cost-benefit analysis, supply and demand, production, consumption, and money and barter are introduced to elementary school children and included in the social studies curriculum in increasingly complex fashion throughout high school. Ways of helping teachers…

Describes study which focused on the economic vocabulary used in national and international news magazines and papers. Compares findings with definitions of economic literacy proposed by economists and suggests that economics courses include economic news literacy. (KC)

Seeks to highlight women's labor so that classroom economics lessons will no longer maintain women's invisibility. Intends only to suggest issues for further study and topics for inclusion in lesson plans; not meant to be a conclusive explanation of a historically very complex and controversial topic. (DB)

Discusses the use of the curriculum package "Econ and Me" in teaching primary school children about economics. Explains that the program incorporates mathematics instruction and promotes language arts skills. Describes research indicating that primary school children's economics knowledge can improve through the use of "Econ and…

The implementation of a unified national system of non-degree courses in business administration, the Business Economic Council (BEC) courses, replaced the ordinary national diploma and certificate courses in business administration in British colleges in the 1970's. Widespread faculty concern that these new courses have not been providing…

An economics learning package which utilized a videocassette recorder (VCR) and an Apple II computer was successfully developed and field tested. The videocassette tape material used in the project was a lesson--"To Buy or Not To Buy"--from "Trade-Offs," a series of economics films for 9- to 13-year-olds. All programming was…

Over the last 25 years, less attention has been devoted to the role of the economist as teacher or professor than to the role of economist as scholar or researcher. Teachers have been seen as passive recipients of advances in economics research that they simply hand on to their students. Yet teachers perform an important gatekeeping function when…

NINETY-FOUR SUPERVISORS AND COORDINATORS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN CALIFORNIA PARTICIPATED IN A CONFERENCE TO EXPLORE THE PROBLEMS OF OCCUPATIONAL GUIDANCE. SPEECHES PRESENTED WERE--(1) "WORKING WITH THE IMAGE OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION" BY KENNETH O. SMITH, (2) "A GUIDANCE PROGRAM--ITS SIGNIFICANCE TO THE…

Developed through a study of concepts and subconcepts included in a number of instructional materials and evaluated by state education agency personnel and homemaking teachers, this framework is designed to aid the teacher in planning local homemaking programs and in developing local curriculum guides. Vocational home economics in Texas consists…

In an interesting and creative two-part workshop, New York City elementary school home economics teachers learn to create teaching modules tailored to the needs of their inner-city students and to their own teaching styles. All the modules used children's literature as a basic resource. (Author)