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McCarthy, Eugene J. – Social Science Record, 1988
Reviews U.S. interventionism from the Truman administration to the Reagan administration. Assesses how intervention has been initiated, justified, and prolonged in the past, stating that future policy must be based upon historical realities rather than on ideology, inherited doctrines, resolutions, or vague treaties. (GEA)
Descriptors: Diplomatic History, Foreign Policy, International Relations, Intervention

Lew, Seok-Choon – Social Studies, 1988
Characterizes the past 40 years in South Korea as a time of modernization, industrialization, urbanization, and internationalization. Discusses Korean religion and social values; family, kinship, and social life; education; housing, food, and clothing; leisure and sports; and the maintenance of national identity. Examines the Korean synthesis of…
Descriptors: Demography, Education, Foreign Countries, Housing
Silver, Christopher – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Describes the role of the government in and the direction of social planning in the United States from the late 19th century through the 1980s. Topics discussed include planning style; the balance between planning methodology and social objectives; and the incremental nature of planning in the United States. (CLB)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Federal Regulation, Futures (of Society), Government Role
Summers, F. William – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Describes the use of library surveys as a tool for library planning in the United States from the late 19th century to the present. Different eras of library planning in the United States are identified, and the weaknesses and strengths of the survey method are discussed. (CLB)
Descriptors: Federal Government, Government Role, Library Planning, Library Research
Tegnell, Geoffrey; Ladenburg, Thomas – Indiana Social Studies Quarterly, 1984
Described is a Yalta simulation and other units in a course designed to have high school students think through, from the perspective of participants and historians, important decisions made by Americans during the past 39 years. The course will prepare students to make intelligent decisions about political and social questions. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Foreign Policy
Johnson, Donald James; Johnson, Jean Elliott – 1999
This unit of study focuses on the historic period from 1920 to 1966 when China's Mao Zedong and India's Mohandas Gandhi constructed and applied their social and moral visions to their respective nationalist movements. These leaders developed contrasting methods to achieve social change and to establish the goals set for achieving the ideal…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries

Haight, David – 2002
This instructional packet is designed to introduce students to primary source material by having them participate in an historical "what might have been." Students engage in critical thinking and document analysis, and through the process learn about Operation OVERLORD and World War II in general. This spy kit centers on Operation…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Enrichment, High Schools, Interdisciplinary Approach
Anderson, Ronald S. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
This study, one of the Office of Education series on education in other countries, is the third to be published as a result of on-the-spot reporting on Japanese education in its own setting. It covers primarily the initial modernization epoch, post-war democratization epoch, and the present period, with some information about the wartime period.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual History, Modern History, Educational History
Rossman, Michael – Learning, 1982
A science teacher relates his feelings as he discussed modern warfare with his sixth-grade students. The students' reactions to moral questions and issues behind civil defense procedures and radioactivity are also discussed. (FG)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking, Current Events, Elementary Education

Yohe, William P. – History Microcomputer Review, 1989
Describes a computer simulation based on quarterly models of the U.S. economy during World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and World War II. Recommends using these simulations to teach facts and knowledge, and as heuristic devices to develop an understanding of complex economic and historical relationships. (LS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Courseware, Economics Education
Pechenev, Vadim Alekseevich – Soviet Education, 1990
Critically responds to an article by Aleksandr Tsipko. Argues that Soviet economic development has been marred not by a failure to accommodate the human factor, as Tsipko suggests, but by a lack of individual self-evaluation. Contends that successful socioeconomic progress depends upon individual moral development. (CH)
Descriptors: Communism, Criticism, Economic Development, European History
Miller, Steven L., Ed. – 1995
This book is intended to provide educators with the means to observe and teach about the unification process in Europe. The book contains a collection of essays about different aspects of unification. The Preface, by Dagmar Kraemer and Manfred Stassen, presents a brief historic overview of the development of the European Union. Chapter 1 is the…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Change
Siler, Carl R. – 1996
This digest addresses the uses of oral history projects in the secondary U.S. history classroom. The document advocates that oral history is a stimulating classroom process designed to increase student involvement in a United States history class and improve student understanding of a relatively recent historical period. Oral history also involves…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Family History, Folk Culture, Inquiry
Hare, Delmas E. – 1997
This paper examines the Georgia law mandating character education and how India has addressed a similar situation with its diversity by using the "Jakarta Tales." These children's tales are Buddhist in origin, have clearly stated morals, but lack a distinct Buddhist doctrinal bent. The paper advocates that a similar orientation could be…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness, Culture
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1988
This document is the record from a U.S. Congress oversight hearing on the Department of Education's refusal to fund a program to teach students about the Holocaust. The program, "Facing History and Ourselves," applied for federal funding to the Department of Education's National Diffusion Network (NDN), an organization intended to…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Federal Aid, Federal Government, Government Publications