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Stamper, Anne – 1998
This book traces the Women's Institute (WI's) movement and its contribution to the lifelong learning of rural women for 100 years and how it led to the opening of Denman College in 1948. Part 1 describes the following: WI's start in Canada; its move to England and Wales; the women who molded and guided the WI after the First World War; education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, General Education
David, Larry M. – 1988
A guide to implement, expand, or improve an extended college orientation course on campus is presented. Student success courses and extended orientation programs help students learn to be more effective in school and improve student performance and retention. These courses are sometimes designed for honors students, returning adults, athletes,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Students, Higher Education, Minicourses
Kadunc, Nancy J.; Thompson, Gary E. – 1984
Summer Tech '83 was a joint venture of the College of Education of Ohio State University and the Columbus Ohio Public Schools to provide instruction on the use of microcomputers to citizens of the Columbus metropolitan area. For 4 weeks 53 different 10-hour classes were offered in 7 broad areas: introductory computer literacy, programing, word…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Education, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
Bean, Thomas W. – 1982
The first year of California State University's program to improve university students' critical reading of introductory texts had two objectives: to develop professors' available repertoire of strategies for guiding students' independent learning from texts and to develop students' facility in learning from texts with adjunct guide materials…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Economics
Hyman, Stanley D. – Manpower, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Course Descriptions, Employment Services
Illinois Univ., Chicago. – 1977
This is the first volume of a two-volume minicourse in astrophysics. It contains chapters on the following topics: planetary atmospheres; X-ray astronomy; radio astrophysics; molecular astrophysics; and gamma-ray astrophysics. Each chapter gives much technical discussion, mathematical treatment, diagrams, and examples. References are included with…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Curriculum Guides, Evolution, Graduate Study
Illinois Univ., Chicago. – 1977
This is the second of a two-volume minicourse in astrophysics. It contains chapters on the following topics: stellar nuclear energy sources and nucleosynthesis; stellar evolution; stellar structure and its determination; and pulsars. Each chapter gives much technical discussion, mathematical treatment, diagrams, and examples. References are…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Curriculum Guides, Evolution, Graduate Study
McCarthy, J.M. – 1973
Because the study of history efficiently enculturates the young and contributes to the security and continuity of the society, it has almost always been accorded a place in the syllabus. Its inclusion in the American school syllabus has been variously modified by the considerations of several schools of educational philosophy and by the reports of…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, History, History Instruction
Williams, Leodrey – 1970
The value of a special nutrition program in three Northeast Louisiana parishes as to the effectiveness of the structured organizational approach, the teaching methods and techniques used, and use of sub-professional workers from their respective community was studied. The nutrition knowledge of 120 homemakers was determined before any training in…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Extension Education, Females, Home Economics
Kelley, Marjorie L. – 1970
Minicourse 2, "Thought and Language: Skills for Teaching Kindergarten Children With Minimal Language Experience," was designed to help teachers to meet the needs of such pupils. The course is organized into five sequences in which a set of 14 teaching behaviors are described and demonstrated; specific skills pertain to five areas of language…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Kindergarten Children
Postlethwait, S. N.; Mercer, Frank – 1972
This publication involves a minicourse designed to allow the student to acquire an understanding of minicourses as possible alternatives to the conventional unit of education. A brief history of the minicourse concept is presented and the nature of a minicourse is discussed. Various ways in which minicourses can be used are then explained. The…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Instruction, Magnetic Tape Cassettes, Minicourses
Adams, Marlene E. – 1972
Developed as a quinmester unit for the high school on yearbook and magazine layout, this guide provides the teacher with suggested teaching strategies for a study of the theory and practice of page layout, photo cropping and editing, use of color and special effects, copy fitting and headline writing and fitting, and principles of typography.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Editing, Elective Courses, Journalism
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1972
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on the romantic hero, this guide contains teaching strategies for a study of the characteristics of the romantic hero as he appears in various literary selections. Several major literary works are analyzed and discussed in comparison with popular culture heroes, and the portrayal of the romantic hero in…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Guides, English Instruction
Gordon, Judith R. – 1973
This document describes the design and development of a structured elective program in English at Fayetteville-Manlius Senior High School. It provides a brief analysis of the events which caused the curriculum change, a description of the development of a modified version of the elective system, and a description of the course offerings in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elective Courses, English Curriculum
Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC. Bureau of Training. – 1970
The evaluation of a one-week training course for position classification trainees and personnel specialists is described. The study population included 29 Government employees in grades 5 through 9, 14 of whom were position classification trainees and 15 of whom were interns or personnel specialists. The evaluation study outline was as follows: A.…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Government Employees, Job Skills
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