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Explorations, Vol. 2, No. 1, Linda J. Kling, Robert A. Cobb, Walter G. Mcintire, Philip A. Pratt, Richard A. Cook, Merrill Elias, Michael Robbins, Peggy K. Schomaker, R. D. Blake

Explorations — A Journal of Research

Cover: The painting reproduced on the cover is a 22” by 30” acrylic on paper entitled Passage-10, by James Linehan, Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Maine at Orono, where he teaches painting. ©James Linehan, 1985.

Articles include:

"Polyunsaturated Fats: are they killing us?" by Linda J. Kling

"Where are the Dreamers: aspirations of Maine's rural high school students," by Robert A. Cobb, Walter G. McIntire, and Philip A. Pratt

"Elsewhere in Education: a research sampler"

• "Physical Education and Handicapped Children," Stephen A. Butterfield
• "School Climate and Teacher Efficacy," Theodore Coadarci
• "The Principal Principle," Gordon A. Donaldson, Jr. …

Changing Negative Attitudes Of Elementary Children Toward The Aged Through Positive Interaction And Aging Education Within The School Curriculum, Mary Emily King

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Children develop attitudes at an early age, both positive and negative. Negative attitudes toward the aged can be changed through direct contact between the elderly and through aging education within the curriculum. Children have negative attitudes toward the elderly and the aging process. Direct contact can change these views by providing interaction between children and the elderly while aging education can bring about an awareness of the aging process and of the aged. With aging being an inevitable and important part of being human, it is necessary as well as important for educators to help children develop positive attitudes toward …

Teaching Reading With Worlds In Color In A Home Schooling Environment, Grace Indoccio Matty

MA TESOL Collection

This paper purports that a home learning environment is a workable alternative to a formal school education. It examines the reading acquisition process of one child through the approach, Words in Color, in a home schooling environment. It's intent is to heighten awareness of the traditional system of education and to describe materials and techniques that can be used in helping a child to learn to read the English language.

Symbols Of America Standard-Bearer Of A New World Order An Autobiographical Interpretation Of U.S. Culture And Civilization In The Twentieth Century, Andrew J. Dimauro

MA TESOL Collection

Throughout my internship in Latin America I was faced with the dilemma of representing U.S. culture and civilization. This paper represents the synthesis of an introspective process of self-realization as a cultural being. The format is partially autobiographical and partially historical. The process involved the separating out of certain cultural tendencies derived from a largely materialistic background of training and replacing these with a more spiritual view of American identity which I perceived to be consistent with the original intentions of the Founders of the U.S.A. The process thus led to a more enlightened vision of U.S. culture and its …

Dialects In Discourse: Regional Speech Of United States English, Laura Wilson Bergan

MA TESOL Collection

This project provides materials that are to be used to improve the listening comprehension and communicating skills of intermediate and advanced students of ESL by exposing them to the sounds and rhythms of different dialects of United States English. The project consists of samples of genuine speech that are unrehearsed and unedited, as is the 'real English' that ESL students encounter in the United States. By listening to the tapes, students can grow accustomed to the natural flow of casual spoken English.

The Dangers Of Project Wild: A Special Report, John W. Grandy, Jennifer Lewis, Kathleen J. Savesky

The Institute for the Study of Animal Problems [ISAP]

In response to our concerns, Project WILD officials asked our organizations to submit a critique of the material, together with any changes which we consider necessary in the materials. We have done so. The result is this Special Report.

You will see that our organizations have provided a detailed and thoroughly documented critique of Project WILD which conclusively supports our two primary recommendations:

(1) Discontinue distribution of the Project WILD guides until the problems which we have documented are satisfactorily solved; and,

(2) Notify, insofar as possible, all of those who have received the Project WILD guides and ask them, …

New Directions In Facilitating The Teaching Roles Of Parent In The Sex Education Of Their Children, John A. Henschke Edd

IACE Hall of Fame Repository

A family-oriented sex education course was developed for parents to take together with their children. The program, which is designed for young people between the ages of 9 and 17, is offered in separate sections for the following groups: mothers and their 9- to 12 year-old daughter, mothers and their 13 to 17-year-old daughters, fathers and their 9 to 12-year-old sons, and fathers and their 13- to 17-year-old sons. Five 2 hour sessions were provided for the younger group and six 2- hour sessions were provided for the older group. Through mini lectures, films, discussion, activities, and games, the following …