The lessons in this 3-part series are intended to provide students with a basic understanding of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, with emphasis on multiple perspectives, conflict and cooperation, and interdependence. This curriculum unit, Part 2, examines three contemporary issues: immigration, the North American Free Trade…

Presents a learning activity in which secondary students read about and analyze the legal institutions of an African tribe called the Ibo. Students compare the Ibo's precolonial system of resolving disputes with the U.S. system. (AM)

Describes how a statistical analytical technique (the Q-sort) can be used to derive ideal educational objectives for high school geography courses. Discusses implications for curriculum development in geography. Journal availability: see SO 507 226. (DB)

Describes a science activity that employs the egg as the focus of a discussion about similarities between different cultures and objects in a science demonstration. (KHR)

Describes the initial development of a 45-item self-administered questionnaire/instrument for the evaluation of guidance services in schools. The sample comprises 39 in-service secondary school teachers taking certificate guidance and counseling courses in Hong Kong. This instrument describes the unique characteristics of guidance and counseling…

Compares evaluation criteria for writing held in two contexts; explores the criteria used to evaluate English-language student writing by German and United States secondary school teachers; and compares the rank ordering of three essays given by teachers from these three groups. Presents results that have important implications for writing…

Deals with the special importance of cultural literacy in language acquisition. Introduces and illustrates the use of a cultural inventory designed to help students read in a foreign language. Illustrates a pre-reading exercise designed to tap cultural content. (NH)

Shares how one teacher used a small group setting to promote cross-cultural experiences while reading the novel "The Old Man and the Sea." (MG)

Investigates the conceptual structures of Year 9 students in Korea and Australia while constructing various geometrical terms. Reports that two samples of students exhibited major differences in definition-ranking preferences on angle and in semantic profiles for some geometrical concepts due to the differences in nature of Korean and English.…

Education is a key for the economic growth and social development of developing countries. This paper presents findings of a study that analyzed how scarce resources should be allocated to the two types of secondary education--academic and vocational. Methodology involved correlation and regression analysis of World Bank data on the Gross National…

A study was designed to investigate English as a second language (ESL) teachers' and students' perceptions of the appeal and appropriateness of ESL textbook illustrations. In particular, the notion that response to the various stylistic representations of the human figure may, in part, be culture-bound was examined. Three basic questions were…

The author describes a junior high school interdisciplinary Canadian studies course. Class projects encompassing Indian culture, French-Canadian culture, English-Canadian culture, and regional and ethnic cultures are examined. (DE)

A three-phase study, with a different sample for each phase, involved a total of 1125 secondary school students in Indonesia. The first phase involving 373 grade 8 and 9 students was used to develop and validate an Indonesian classroom environment instrument with eight scales based on the Individualized Classroom Environment Questionnaire and the…

Project Africa's report summarizes: 1) its background and rationale, structure, and staff, 2) curriculum materials design, development, field trial and evaluation, 3) other project dissemination activities. Three different groups of materials were developed by the project. The most comprehensive was a flexible, sixteen-week program of study,…

This listing of schools that offer curriculum units dealing with Asia was compiled for the purpose of advancing the teaching of Asian Studies in schools throughout the United States, particularly at the secondary level. A total of 691 entries are included, the majority of which are from public or private junior or senior high schools within the…