After a three year review of films on India available in the United States, the Resource Center offered this guide to those motion pictures adjudged best for use in American classrooms. There are twelve documentary films and four commercial feature films included for use at any level of school, college, or university study: Child of the Streets; A…

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 1, examines two important historical episodes. The first episode focuses on a…

This book was written to offer ideas on how to open archeological education to more students, not just those seeking a Ph.D. Individuals in archaeology provide background and offer suggestions for a movement to provide greater access to the field. The book ponders 21st century archaeology, its possible directions and strategies, and call on those…

The author proposes the inclusion of the study of the religions of the non-Western world to enrich the world history curriculum. Resource materials for use in studies of these cultures are suggested. (SM)

The study of women in various cultures, examining statistics, life rites, reading individual observations, can open to the student vistas to the entire world. Suggestions are given to turn the student on'' to what's happening in the world through this approach. (JB)

Implementation of a new project is outlined and the rationale leading to its development is described. (JB)

A model lesson is presented based on the four basic operations of inquiry: defining a problem; hypothesizing answers; testing hypotheses; and, drawing conclusions. The lesson begins with the question, what are the people of the world like, refined to, what are the Hausa like. (DB)

Asian studies are neglected in our public schools despite China-U. S. accords and our involvement in Southeast Asia. (Editor)

Race has virtually no biological significance, but misuse of the biological concept of race continues today. (Author/ND)

The Intercultural Social Studies Project (ICSSP) newsletter, issued periodically, is designed to disseminate information about the project which is concerned with developing and field testing cultural/international study materials for secondary students. Directed toward field test teachers, ICSSP evaluators, and key people with professional…

Presents teaching strategies by which elementary social studies teachers can introduce a study of China. Students compare (1) their daily schedules with that of a sixth grader in Tientsin, (2) American and Chinese popular music, and (3) costs of living and income in China and America. Journal availability: see SO 506 831. (AV)

Using selected examples from Japan, China, and Korea, this article focuses on the ways in which law-related education may be used to provide an avenue for cultural exploration and understanding. (JDH)

This special issue attempts to provide a summary of what scholars and educators have recommended that U.S. K-12 students study in the international dimension of education. These guidelines are not "standards" as the term is currently used by academic disciplines, but they can be used to validate local curriculum decisions and to assure that the…