After a three-week tour in Moscow, the author discusses and compares various aspects of Russian home economics: general school home economics, home economics after school, Moscow housing, home furnishings, dining out in Moscow, and consumer economics. (Author/BP)

A survey of university and polytechnics in the United Kingdom revealed that a small proportion of students who take economics courses continue very far with the subject. Included are analysis of non-specialist courses, justification for them, staff and student attitudes, and conclusions regarding re-examination of the content and approach for…

The Bachelor Living classes are a series of 13 mini-courses for boys instructing them in techniques for living alone, such as teenage problems; simple repairs and maintenance problems; consumer education; employment opportunities; handicrafts; and cooking, foods, and nutrition instruction. (BP)

Profit attitude is a developmental process that vocational educators should incorporate into their programs, developing the student's attitude towards a relationship of what his cost to an employer is as related to the company's net worth because of his skills and ability. (Author/BP)

The tab device, a testing instrument in which the student studies the situation and selects the tab which he believes will solve the problem, offers a testing method with immediate feedback about his decision. A sample tab device testing instrument is included. (MW)

In comparison with an introductory psychology course, an introductory economics course tends to make students more conservative. (DE)

In this study the simulation/game Marketplace is shown to have little comparative advantage over common instructional techniques in student learning and attitudes toward economic concepts. (Author/DE)

Presents an historical perspective and an analysis of the current problems being faced by the Harvard Department of Economics concerning faculty appointments, faculty ideology, and student attitudes. (PG)

Home economics teachers sensitive to aging can be effective agents in forming healthy attitudes toward the aged and aging; they will see the need for increased concern for the influence of housing on the aged. Housing will be seen as an arrangement promoting continuous education. (Author)

This annotated bibliography provides an examination and description of all recent introductory principles texts to help instructors decide which texts to obtain for consideration in their own courses. (Author/KM)

Produced as a part of an evaluatic research study, this volume includes descriptions and critiques of 14 sets of economic education reviews print materials for teaching economics to grades 7-10 that were prepared by economists and middle school teachers. The materials for evaluation were selected by searching the Education Resources Information…

Developed as part of a 37.5-hour microeconomics course, this lesson plan focuses on the concepts of supply and demand analysis used to determine market equilibrium. The objectives of the 50-minute lesson are to enable the student to: (1) explain how a demand schedule is derived from raw data; (2) graph a demand curve from the demand schedule; (3)…

The conceptual introduction to this issue focuses on two questions: why study competition and what is a competitive market. Four instructional units follow, beginning with "Choosing Competitors." This preschool and kindergarten unit involves students in competitive games (naming colors), role playing competitive behaviors, comparing…