This Bulletin, published bimonthly, reports the current literature in the areas of science, engineering, technology, and public policy. The coverage encompasses both "policy for science" and "science for policy" matters. The Bulletin is intended for individuals engaged in studying, formulating, or implementing public policy relating to science and its use. The purpose is to aid such individuals by alerting them to new additions to the science policy literature. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Bibliographies, Engineering, Foreign Policy, Policy Formation,...
This course of instruction, one of a series of curriculum guides revised to fit the quinmester administrative organization of schools, attempts to prepare tenth through twelfth grade students to deal with complex war-peace issues. The model framework allows the teacher to use the total guide or to select certain ideas. The guide is divided into four sections: 1) provision of descriptive and goal oriented information, in which thought processes are accented; 2) an outline of course content...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activity Units, Aggression, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Conflict,...
This consultant paper is intended to provide information useful to a goal of this curriculum development project in the war/peace field, that is to encourage students to search intelligently for alternatives to war. The most fundamental assumptions used in thinking about international law are described, including some assumptions about systemic relationships. Several conceptual models of arrangements for management, settlement, or the outright prevention of conflict are presented to define...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conceptual Schemes, Conflict Resolution, Court Litigation, Foreign Policy,...
The newsletter of this national organization presents commentary on the foreign policy relationship between the United States and China and cites relevant current information. In the summer, 1971 issue introductory comments on the Taiwan policy dilemma appear, as well as announcements of study programs, conferences or symposia, and field staff activities. A main section, China in the News, summarizes current news items based largely on New York Times, Washington Post, and Far Eastern Economic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Asian History, Communism, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government Role,...
The accelerated pace of society suggests that social education be clearly formulated from a conceptual golobal framework, recognizing the oneness of earth and man's sharing of a common fate, and that the curriculum be designed from a point of view toward improving international understanding. Effective approaches in international relations programs include: 1) a breakdown of sharp distinctions between studies of American and of other societies; 2) an interdisciplinary approach; 3) recognition...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Objectives, Elementary...
This directory to activities, organizations, careers, and studies for individuals and groups who are interested in promoting world peace contains ten sections on means and ways to contribute toward world order: 1) presents ideas that stimulate thinking and research on war, peace, and the challenge of peace; 2) suggests some existing world peace careers; 3) deals with new developing careers for peace; 4) lists sixty-five volunteer and service organizations working for peace; 5) describes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conflict Resolution, Elementary Education, Foreign Policy, Human Relations,...
As part of a broad effort to world peace this resource kit supplies information on China and attempts to motivate people to work in their communities on concerns of China. Emphasis in the kit is upon placing equal weight on both information and action. Four background articles give the reader an introduction to China's self-image in world affairs. Respectively, these articles: survey foreign policy since 1949, which is based on a combination of security considerations, ideology, and a desire...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Asian History, Community Action, Community Development, Experiential...
The quinmester American studies elective course for grades seven through nine focuses on the development of the United States as a world power from 1898 when conditions and influential groups of expansionists contributed to the United States, changing from an isolationist nation to the present world power. Emphasis is on the concept of national power and its manifestation in national and foreign policy in an attempt to provide students with a background and foundation upon which to build an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activity Units, American Studies, Behavioral Objectives, Colonialism, Curriculum...
The American Studies quinmester course for grades ten through twelve on the United States and Asia emphasizes how United States foreign policy evolved in Asia from the Spanish American War in 1898 which was a turning point in policy to the present and the need to understand the involvement of foreign policy and its implication for mutual development. Course goals are for the student to: 1) analyze the motives for United States involvement in Asia at the turn of the 20th century; 2) trace the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activity Units, American History, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Guides,...
A workbook, written for use in local churches and synagogues, suggests projects and programs for concerned individuals who wish to contribute to an effort to end war. An introduction presents the rationale of the workbook, the creation of a network to end war, and ways in which groups and individuals can become involved in this endeavor. A chapter on resources describes materials for projects based around literature tables, information centers, posters, pictures, books, newsletters, films,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Church Role, Community Action, Conflict Resolution, Films,...
Designed to supplement secondary United States history courses, this resource booklet provides materials on four dramatic incidents in American history. The four events under examination include the Boston Massacre, the Denmark Vesey Slave Revolt, the Republic Steel Strike of 1937, and the Berlin Airlift of 1948. Each unit contains social background to the event, a description of the events leading to the incident, a description of what happened, a summary of important outcomes of the incident,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black History, Class Activities, Democracy, Foreign Policy, History Instruction,...
This book contains ten articles which discuss education for a world view. In a democratic society there is a need for wide public understanding of the country's national and international policies. One article "The End of Innocence" discusses the rapidly, changing, and complex world in which we live and points out certain fallacies which must be avoided. These fallacies include thinking that we live in a bipolar world, fear of negotiation, and the belief that there exists an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Seniors, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Policy, Global Approach,...
This document contains a partially annotated bibliography of books, journal articles, government reports, and other documents relating to the 1990-91 college debate topic: Resolved: That the United States should substantially change its trade policy with China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. (DB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Colleges, Debate, Developed Nations, Educational Resources, Foreign Countries,...
This ERIC Digest discusses issues relating to teaching about U.S. foreign policy in the changing international environment following the end of the Cold War era and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The document treats: (1) the need and rationale for teaching and learning about current foreign policy issues; (2) main themes in foreign policy education in the post-Cold War era; (3) balance, inquiry, and decision making in the classroom; and (4) current classroom materials. The U.S. public...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign...
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