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Lahren, S. L., Jr. – 1983
In response to declining enrollment in teacher education programs and a mandate from the Regents of the Montana University System to accept special responsibility as a Rural Education Center for the State of Montana, the Education Division of Western Montana College (Dillon, Montana) in 1980 hired an applied anthropologist to evaluate the existing…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Education Majors, Educational Anthropology, Educational Assessment

Lambert, Richard D., Ed. – The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1987
A collection of papers of directions in second language education includes: "The Improvement of Foreign Language Competency in the United States" (Richard D. Lambert); "The Measurement of Foreign/Second Language Proficiency" (Lyle F. Bachman, John D. Clark); "Advanced Technology in Foreign Language Instruction and Translation" (John Fought);…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Difficulty Level, Educational Needs, Educational Strategies
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1985
An award winning program, the Teacher-Research Institute of the Maryland Writing Project at Towson State University, is described, along with six other state college programs that received special commendations by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). Towson State University won AASCU's G. Theodore Mitau Award for…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Awards, Chemistry, Classroom Research
Castillo, Max – 1984
Community colleges serve more than half of all entering freshmen, half of all the women seeking higher education, and more minorities than all of the 4-year colleges and universities combined. Serving this population, the leaders and policy makers of community colleges must recognize the reasons for the underrepresentation of minorities in college…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Articulation (Education), Black Students, Change Strategies
Turcotte, Sandrine; Laferrière, Thérèse – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2004
This research paper describes the use of computer mediated conferencing (CMC) to support the teaching of biology to undergraduates. The use of this pedagogical innovation was a first-time experience for both the instructor and his students. The objectives of this project were to increase students' active participation, to facilitate collaborative…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning
Wolcott, Harry E. – 1977
Too many educational researchers have been too attentive to innovations and too inattentive to how educators organize to cope with them. The use of anthropological concepts and methods in analyzing the educator subculture could improve planning and implementation of innovations. A study of the attempt to develop a variant of a planning,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adoption (Ideas), Case Studies, Educational Anthropology
Pederson, Clara A., Comp. – 1976
The booklet presents 15 articles describing innovative social studies materials and teaching techniques. It was designed to help classroom teachers develop and implement social studies programs at the elementary school level. The materials were developed by teachers in education programs at the University of North Dakota from 1968-77. The first…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Career Education, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Galyean, Beverly – 1977
This article describes the evolution of a confluent language program, which provides simultaneous processes for successful language learning, self awareness, self appreciation, and interpersonal communication. The confluent language curriculum design has been successfully implemented in language classes throughout the United States and in some…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions
Button, Warren – 1978
Because history describes and explains the past, it is a relevant tool for many other disciplines, including education. Historical studies can contribute to the improvement of schooling by providing information, demonstrating errors of memory, helping explain the present, and encouraging the introduction of new concepts. In the past, educational…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Morrill, Paul H.; Spees, Emil R. – 1982
Teaching in higher education is examined in terms of the normal duties and responsibilities of the college instructor, some of the newer instructional patterns and innovations, educational technology, and skills needed to guide the learning process. Chapters include: the context of higher education; roles in the academic profession; basic…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, College Instruction
Newton, Eunice Shaed – 1982
Assuming that nontraditional institutions espouse teaching and learning approaches that differ from conventional elitist college education, this book shows what can be done for high-risk students, and also how it can be done. Their philosophical orientations are identified and related to instructional content, objectives, and strategies. Chapters…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Instruction, College Students, Community Colleges
Guroff, Katharine S., Ed.; Boeker, Margaret C. – 1981
Conference proceedings and descriptions of 62 projects funded through Project QUILL (Quality in Liberal Learning) are presented. Project QUILL, which began in 1978, awarded small incentive grants to higher education institutions to encourage new approaches to the integration of traditional disciplines, professional education, and the needs of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Students, Career Education, College Curriculum
Bell, William E.; And Others – 1980
This collection of papers examines the current issues in urban education as suggested by on-site studies of programs in sixteen different cities between 1977 and 1980. An overview of the problems in urban education and their causes is presented in the first paper. The second paper discusses program improvement strategies and several examples of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Career Education, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
Hecht, Kathryn A. – 1980
Eight on-site visits (focusing on school districts which did not use federal Vocational Education Act funds) were made with state vocational education administrators and rural school superintendents in two states to identify factors related to providing vocational education to rural secondary students, to ascertain why some rural districts did not…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agricultural Education, Career Education, Community Involvement
National Inst. for Work and Learning, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report examines the need for education and training during working life, the present structure of opportunity for it, and preferred directions for the future. In the introduction are addressed the relevance of adult education to work life and the advantages of concentrating on worker education. Focus of the next section is the effect of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Colleges, Communications