Suggesting the educational value of the television production of James Clavell's "Shogun," this pamphlet offers a synopsis of the story and a viewer's guide to responding to "Shogun." Following synopses of the five television broadcasts that comprise "Shogun," five units are presented for a viewer's educational study…

The document analyzes Mao Tse-Tung's "Three Main Rules of Discipline" and "Eight Points For Attention" and presents, by way of comparison, the text of the "Code of Conduct" issued by the President of the United States for members of the armed forces during the Vietnam War. Mao's regulations were revised by the General…

The bulletin probes the debate over the nature of social studies and considers the role of social studies in the curriculum. It is intended to be a clarification of the field of social studies for textbook authors, curriculum developers, and educators. The bulletin is presented in five chapters. Chapter I discusses the confusion which has resulted…

THE ENGLISH TEACHER CAN ROUSE STUDENTS OUT OF UNTHINKING ACCEPTANCE AND PASSIVITY BY PROVIDING THEM WITH CREATIVE LANGUAGE EXPERIENCES DESIGNED TO SHAPE THEM INTO CURIOUS AND RESPONSIVE INDIVIDUALS. TO FIND A PERSPECTIVE ON TEACHING CREATIVELY THE MANY FACETS OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND COMPOSITION, TEACHERS SHOULD LOOK TO STATEMENTS MADE BY…

An evaluation team, funded by a Title III/ESEA grant, considered the success of the 1967-68 Dramatics Enrichment Program conducted in selected secondary school systems in Kentucky. Eight test instruments were used to evaluate 900 students who attended four plays as a class activity and who received copies of the plays, study guides, and special…

Written to help a viewer watch a motion picture perceptively, this book explains the characteristics of the film as an art form and examines the role of motion pictures in the English curriculum. Specific topics covered include (1) the technical aspects of the production of films (the order of "shots," camera angle, and point of view), (2) the…

This curriculum guide for grades 7-12 divides the language arts into five areas: (1) language; (2) literature; (3) skills involved in reading, in studying, and in using the library; (4) speaking, listening, and mass media; and (5) written composition. An introductory section discusses the rationale behind the total plan, offers "perspectives" on…

As the second five-year supplement to "Children's Literature: A Guide to Reference Sources" (1966), this annotated and illustrated bibliography reflects the emphases that have developed in the fields of literature and library service for children. New sections include selected bibliographies and critical works on nonprint materials, citations on…

One in a series of annual publications, this booklet contains reviews of books relating to the teaching of English and the language arts. The books are divided into ten categories: teaching principles and practice, source books and course books, writing and rhetoric, reading and books for the slower reader, language and oral work, prose, poetry,…

A 93-item annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive guide to resource materials, research findings, and developments related to library services and materials to Mexican Americans. The materials, published between 1964 and 1976, are drawn from issues of "Resources in Education" (RIE) and "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE). Both…

This critique of three Piaget-based curricula presents the argument that it is essential for early childhood educators to distinguish between the actual contributions of Piaget in regard to specific epistemological questions and the way these contributions have been reinterpreted to provide a basis for early childhood curriculum reform. The…

N. L. Gage's analysis of the educational research paradigm can be modified and expanded--first in a Model of the Structure of Knowledge (SOK) and then in a SOK Module which concretely demonstrates one approach to knowledge-making in English Education. Categories in the SOK Model would include (1) the Context of Inquiry--the milieu, the phenomena…

Seventeen reprinted essays and an unpublished one are contained in this collection and organized under five headings: History of Ideas, Approaches to Medieval Literature, Chaucer and Fourteenth-Century English Literature, Language and Linguistics, and Essay-Reviews. Topics discussed include the origin of the concept of the Seven Cardinal Sins;…

A thematic literature unit on the generation gap utilizing a variety of materials and in-class activities helps students understand their generation and that of their parents, creates an awareness that parent-child conflict is not a new phenomenon, and emphasizes the inevitable cycle by which the younger generation becomes the older generation.…

This study was designed to (1) determine whether prospective English teachers who had taken a course in literary criticism differed significantly from those who had not, and (2) discover what books on critical theory students had read and whether a relationship existed between number of books read and scores on a literary criticism test. A test…