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Leppert, Ella C.; Johnson, Ellen – 1967
The material in the Course III, Unit I, secondary teacher's manual builds upon earlier sequential courses and provides a foundation for the study of two other cultural areas. Objectives are for students to broaden their cultural understanding and awareness emphasizing main ideas about Africa. Students will analyze why a tremendous regional…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, African Culture, Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies
LaRoe, Margaret E. – 1971
A survey of Florida's history comprises this quinmester general social studies course for grades seven through nine. The primary aim is to give students skills and knowledge necessary to understand issues and take part in their resolution, thereby helping students to prepare for effective citizenship in their own state. Objectives of the course…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Area Studies, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Guides
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Bathurst, Effie G.; Mackintosh, Helen K. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1943
With distance bridged by speedy planes, the Americas of tomorrow will accept as natural and reasonable the exchange of visits between countries separated by several thousand miles. Geography will be learned first hand not confined to books and maps. In the schools of the United States there has long been some inclusion of content on the other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Curriculum Guides, International Education
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Tetreault, Mary Ann – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1996
Discusses strategies aimed at moving undergraduates beyond the traditional stereotypical and demonized portrait of the Middle East. Suggests focusing on boundaries (shifting between national, cultural, religious, and economic), on bases of information (different students bring different knowledge levels), and using a wide variety of biographies…
Descriptors: Arabs, Area Studies, Conflict, Cultural Context
Burd, Stephen – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998
The implications of the 1998 Higher Education Act Amendments for students and institutions are summarized, including those for federal student financial aid programs, loan guarantee agency reforms, distance-education programs, student and institutional eligibility, campus crime, college costs, federal outreach and student service programs,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Area Studies, Crime, Distance Education
Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1984
An outline of the knowledge and skills to be taught at grade four form in order to meet the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) social studies objectives is provided. Material is divided into four parts. Following an introduction, a one page description overviews the curriculum topic for grade four, regional studies, and specifies the…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Behavioral Objectives, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides
Morse, Ronald A., Ed.; Samuels, Richard J., Ed. – 1985
The proceedings of a conference on the development of language capabilities to prepare United States scientists to share in scientific and technological development with Japan include these papers: "Are Japanese Language Programs Reaching Scientists and Engineers?"; "Japanese Language Study for Engineers: High Tech…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Audiovisual Instruction, Certification, Classroom Techniques
Laws, Kevin – 1978
A social studies unit and student workbook explore changes in land use that have occurred over time in a semiarid area of eastern Australia, the Back Lachlan District. Part of the "outback," the District consists of a huge level plain with low rainfall, only one river, and vegetation ranging from timber to grass and shrub. Chapter I…
Descriptors: Animal Husbandry, Area Studies, Case Studies, Change Agents
Harris, James J. – 1975
Economic development remains one of the most important objectives of American Indian reservations. Various programs for developing the reservations' resources have been implemented. Due to the multiplicity of needs, development policy has been multi-faceted: health programs to upgrade physical well-being; educational programs to enhance scholastic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Agency Role, American Indian Reservations
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1974
A selection of papers on Asian population trends and educational development is presented in four parts. Part I defines the major components of Asian population growth as the rapid decline in mortality after 1945, relative increases in the population of less developed regions, accelerated fertility potential, and unequal distribution of wealth.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Area Studies, Asian Studies, Case Studies
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Howe, Richard D. – 1998
This document provides comparative salary trend data for full-time faculty in 27 academic disciplines/major fields for the baseline year 1994-95 and the trend year 1997-98 for 262 public and 387 private institutions. For each discipline/major field surveyed, the report provides a Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) definition, data…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Architectural Education, Area Studies, Business Education
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Howe, Richard D.; And Others – 1995
This volume provides comparative trend data for faculty salaries in public and private colleges and universities, based on two surveys, one of public and the other of private senior colleges and universities. For those institutions (223 public and 345 private) participating in both 1991-92 and 1994-95 surveys, trend data are provided. For each…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Accounting, Anthropology, Area Studies
Kelleher, Ann – 1996
The case studies presented in this volume offer comparative examples of undergraduate international education innovations in a wide variety of categories: curriculum, study abroad, community outreach, faculty development, and international students. The studies were conducted in the mid-1990s, and programs had to meet several criteria: they had to…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
Moore, Sarah Jane, Ed.; Morfit, Christine, Ed. – 1993
Selected writings by Richard Lambert on languages and international studies include the following: "Foreign Language Planning in the United States"; "Southeast Asian Language Instruction"; "Implications of the New Dutch National Action Plan for American Foreign Language Policy"; "Distance Education and Foreign…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Distance Education, Educational Finance
Saginaw Public Schools, MI. – 1983
One of a series of social studies curriculum guides, this publication outlines a sixth-grade course on world cultures. Material is presented in two parts. Part 1, an overview of the program, contains an introduction, a statement of philosophy, an outline of elementary level scope and sequence, a description of Michigan mandated essential skill and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Cross Cultural Studies
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