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Download full textMcCarthy, 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
Bean, Thomas W. – 1981
A year-long interdisciplinary project sought to develop professors' available repertoire of strategies for guiding students' independent learning from texts and developing students' ability to learn from texts with adjunct guide materials in a minicourse setting. Adjunct materials included such instructor devised aids as study questions, graphic…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Higher Education
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Dept. of History. – 1974
With an acute awareness of learning problems among inner-city students, the teachers in New Haven, Connecticut, modified their courses to relate to the opportunities and challenges of modern education. They reorganized the traditional, year-long, survey history courses into quarter miniunits which emphasize the inquiry approach to analyzing…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, European History, History Instruction
Seretny, Albert A. – 1972
The Yale-New Haven History Education Project began in Spring 1970 with the expressed goal of improving the quality and relevance of secondary school history courses in New Haven's public schools. Thirty Yale history professors worked with a comparable number of high school teachers and created approximately eighty "mini-courses" in…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Burns, Charles A., Ed. – 1980
These 12 essays examine trends and innovations at the community colleges of the State University of New York (SUNY). George Robertson details aspects of recruitment and mission planning at Mohawk Valley Community College for the 1980's. Judith Hall relates her experiences in integrating Latin American reading materials in an introductory…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, College Faculty, College Programs, Community Colleges
Beebe, Ralph K. – 1973
This is the report of an attempt to develop and teach a high school American history course based on inquiry techniques. Chapter I and II discuss recent changes in teaching methodology and the author's interest in the problem. Chapter III details the search for materials. Chapter IV describes the new method being tested in the classroom. Students…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Course Descriptions, Educational Innovation, Elections
