What Good are United States History Mini-Courses?.

Boykin, Arsene

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ERIC Number: EJ249217

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1981

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What Good are United States History Mini-Courses?

Boykin, Arsene

Social Studies, v72 n3 p111-14 May-Jun 1981

Presents results of a study of student attitudes toward United States history 10-week minicourses. Course titles include America's West, Roaring Twenties and Desperate Thirties, Nuclear Age, and Popular American Image. Concludes that minicourses allow students to choose among a variety of offerings and to determine which subjects are relevant and which are irrelevant. (KC)

Descriptors: Educational Innovation, History Instruction, Minicourses, Relevance (Education), Secondary Education, Student Attitudes, United States History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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