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Toll, William – Social Studies, 1973
The presentation of American style of perception and expectations for group behavior has often been avoided by professional history. Afro-American history has a unique contribution to make in exploring the myths of identity which have held our culture together. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Black History, Black Studies, Cultural Images, Historical Criticism
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Hurst, Michael E. Eliot – Journal of Geography, 1973
This paper reviews some traditional classroom practices with their origins in Medieval educational systems, and contrasts this with the daily environment of the average student in North America today. Various supplementary multimedia techniques are discussed, particularly in relation to classroom and community use. (Author)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Geography, Higher Education
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Nathans, Robert – Educational Record, 1973
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inner City, Institutional Research, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Social Education, 1972
This article evaluates a project with an inquiry-based methodology in which high school students experience and attempt to solve the same type of urban problems faced by professional geographers. (SM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Geography Instruction, Inquiry, Program Descriptions
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Social Education, 1972
This article evaluates law instruction materials that can be combined in an interdisciplinary way in the hope that secondary students will be thoroughtly familiar with the law and, therefore, resist injustice. By using an inquiry approach into case studies students delve into controversial social problems that exist in urban America. (SM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Approach, Legal Education
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Chinsky, Jack; And Others – Educational Perspectives, 1973
Describes a university program in which students are involved in urban problems of the black ghetto area of Hartford, Connecticut, while receiving full academic credit. (DS)
Descriptors: Black Community, College Credits, College Students, Experimental Programs
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iannaccone, Laurence; Wiles, David K. – Education and Urban Society, 1971
Urban politics is shifting from the politics of ethnics to the politics of dispersed inequalities, a pattern which has caused an extreme shift in the base of political support. The power of the educational occupation as a source of patronage and a base of political influence has increased. (DM)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Political Affiliation, Political Attitudes, Political Issues
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Levin, Henry M.; And Others – Education and Urban Society, 1971
Argues that the failures of compensatory education are due to an unwillingness to acknowledge the depth of deprivation of the child and an inability to focus upon him the massive resources necessary to compensate for deprivation. Offers a new concept which wi ll depict the need for compensatory programs. (DM)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Administration, Educational Finance, Equal Education
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Novick, Robert E. – Science Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Anthropology, Economic Factors, Federal Programs, Planning
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Birkhead, Guthrie S. – Urban Education, 1971
Argues that there should be a wide variety of approaches to urban study in the educational programs of American universities; describes the offerings at Syracuse University. (DM)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
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Dyckman, John W. – Urban Education, 1971
Discusses attempts to find suitable technology to solve city problems, and to search for ways to heal the breach between planning and politics. (DM)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Technology, Political Influences, Research Opportunities
Anderson, Randell C. – Southwestern Journal of Social Education, 1971
A thorough knowledge of the human environmental association is fundamental, for the man-land relationship encompasses the sum total of integrated learned behavior or culture patterns of particular societies. (Author)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Environmental Education, Geography Instruction, Human Geography
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Featherman, David L. – Rural Sociology, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Males, Occupational Aspiration
Kent, Ashley; Ward, Martin – Bulletin of Environmental Education, 1982
Describes student urban geography project, focusing on environmental inequality in housing in St. Helier (Great Britain). Includes techniques used by students, evaluation of the project, project results, and implications for teaching. (JN)
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Geography Instruction, Housing, Program Descriptions
Davey, Nancy; Walters, Ann – Bulletin of Environmental Education, 1981
Describes one urban education program in Scotland which uses a travelling classroom exhibit to involve students in investigations of streets, parks, churches, and shops. Another program, which has students compare the architecture, history and local features of a town to their own, is also featured. (DC)
Descriptors: Architecture, Environmental Education, Exhibits, Foreign Countries
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