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Simmons, Deborah – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1995
Maintains that the United States needs an environmentally literate citizenry capable of taking individual action and making informed public policy decisions. Asserts that environmental education is interdisciplinary and draws from the social studies, the sciences, language arts, and the fine arts. (CFR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Environment
Luchsinger, Dale F. – American Libraries, 1994
Presents an annotated bibliography of 37 outstanding reference sources published in 1993 for small to medium-sized public and academic libraries as selected by the American Library Association's Reference Services Committee. Categories include culture and civilization, biography, general, language and literature, nature, law, religion, technology,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Biographies, Culture

Dulski, Richard E.; Raven, Ronald J. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1994
A study concurrently identified significant relationships between the attitudes of high school students toward nuclear energy, environmental issues, energy concepts, science concepts, space exploration, and metrication topical areas. Surveys indicated there were significant concurrent attitudinal relationships between specific science-related…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Energy, Environment, Grade 10

Hodgkinson, Christopher – Journal of Educational Administration and Foundations, 2000
The values of the short-term future are implicit: an unholy Apollonian-Dionysian mix of rationalistic, legalistic, bureaucratic, scientific pragmatics, and a reactive, postmodern, relativistic, hedonistic, narcissistic, materialistic nihilism. For education, this might imply a skew toward the digital, the mathematical, the marketable, and the…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Elementary Secondary Education, Environment
Hoepli, Nancy L., Ed. – 1994
This book discusses foreign policy issues and provides background information on current topics. This edition examines the following major issues: (1) "Conflict in Former Yugoslavia: Quest for Solutions" (Susan L. Woodward); (2) "South Africa: Forging a Democratic Union" (Jean Herskovits); (3) "Environmental Crisis in…
Descriptors: African History, Developing Nations, Environment, Foreign Countries
Porter, Jeanne L. – 1995
The importance of dialogue in developing community leadership among diverse groups is described. In the context of South Carolina's Penn School for Preservation, ways communities can create diverse leadership cadres working toward common goals are explored. Common assumptions about the effectiveness of current leadership training methods are…
Descriptors: Blacks, Case Studies, Community Development, Community Leaders
Cohen, Michael P. – 1993
Some approaches to displaying education data to managers and policy makers that may be pertinent to environmental data as well are discussed. The National Center for Education Statistics produces many publications each year, including "The Digest of Education Statistics,""The Condition of Education Statistics," and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Confidentiality, Educational Indicators, Elementary Secondary Education
Palmer, George E., Ed. – 1981
Over 175 economics education projects submitted to the 1979-1980 National Awards Program for Teaching Economics are abstracted. The aim of this annual competition is to discover outstanding classroom teaching practices while encouraging teachers to include and improve economics instruction in the classroom. Citations are contained in separate…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Awards, Business, Consumer Economics
Palmer, George E., Ed. – 1982
Abstracts of innovative and imaginative economics units are provided in this annotated listing of economic education projects submitted to the 1980-81 National Awards Program for Teaching Economics. Over 200 abstracts are contained in separate sections covering materials for primary grades, intermediate grades, junior high schools, senior high…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Awards, Business, Consumer Economics
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1987
The exploitation of human and physical resources in the 1950s and 1960s to maximize economic and technological expansion has brought about an enhanced awareness of their negative consequences and of the importance of the environment on human well-being. This study focuses on the need for an assessment of an individual's capacity for living in…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Discriminant Analysis, Environment, Foreign Countries
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. Office for Equity Education. – 1985
This 10-lesson unit blends social studies skills, concepts, and attitudes with language arts, art, and interpersonal relations in a 2-week study of cultures. Using a global perspective, students learn about four geographic regions of the earth (polar, temperate, tropical, desert), adaptation and change in the environment, different aspects of…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Cultural Interrelationships, Culture, Environment
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Div. of Science Resources Studies. – 1987
This report provides a distribution of research and development (R&D) programs by the function of the Federal budget. It includes only Federal funding of R&D programs, with R&D facilities and all non-R&D activities excluded. The sections of the report are presented in descending order of R&D budget authority for the various…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Budgeting, Education, Energy
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Marine Sciences. – 1988
In a survey preparing for the workshop on the future of marine science training and education, prospective participants returned responses to six theme questions. These responses summarized the views of nearly 400 people worldwide. The synthesis of these summary responses, presented in the report, reflected, besides a great variety of views,…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Environment, Environmental Education
Brennan, Matthew J.; And Others – 1982
Energy activities and lesson plans for kindergarten and grades 1 to 3 (grouped into seven units representing seven major conceptual schemes) are provided in this teachers' guide, with a unit at each grade level for each conceptual scheme. Conceptual schemes addressed include: (1) energy is the ability to do work; (2) energy comes from the sun; (3)…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Ecology, Elementary School Science, Energy
Brennan, Matthew J.; And Others – 1982
Energy activities and lesson plans for grades 4, 5, and 6 (grouped into seven units representing seven major conceptual schemes) are provided in this teachers' guide, with a unit at each grade level for each conceptual scheme. Conceptual schemes addressed include: (1) energy is the ability to do work; (2) energy comes from the sun; (3) energy can…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Ecology, Elementary School Science, Energy