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Dunn and Kendrick demonstrate that the advent of a sibling can be a stimulus for real cognitive and emotional growth on the part of the older child. A sensitive and informative book, "Siblings" takes psychology into an area of family life and child development that has long received too little attention.
Schoolhouse Politics tells the story of a unique experiment in curriculum design in the 1960s. In an attempt to teach anthropology to ten-year-olds, Jerome Bruner and his colleagues designed Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), an elementary school course that combined pioneering fieldwork on the social behavior of baboons, a film-based ethnographic study of an Eskimo tribe, and novel "hands on" classroom materials. Soon after its debut, MACOS was hailed as an original and exciting way to promote science literacy and to teach young people how to think like social scientists. Teachers and students alike expressed enthusiasm for the dynamic nature of the course, and it achieved nationwide distribution and widespread recognition as one of the outstanding social science curriculum projects of the period. Yet by 1975, MACOS had been driven from the schools, a casualty of a small but vocal group of conservatives critical of its content and methodology.Peter Dow, the MACOS project editor, offers a vivid insider's account of those heady post-Sputnik days of federally funded scholar-led curriculum innovation and of the ensuing controversy that undermined MACOS. In their attempt to close the gap between the "frontier of research" and the ordinary classroom, the MACOS team learned a great deal about the relationship between scholarship and teaching, the nature of the learning process, and what happens in a classroom when conventional textbooks are replaced by primary sources and a wide variety of media. MACOS demonstrated the power of student-directed learning, or alternative strategies for stimulating inquiry, and of nondidactic approaches to instruction. But the experience of designing anddistributing the course also taught these innovators hard lessons about educational politics and the economics of American textbook development and publishing.
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Course E is an advanced course, open only to those who have already a knowledge of the annals of American history and a considerable training in history and government. It is intended to discuss the practical workings of the American system of government as it now exists, with constant reference, however, to the historical growth of the institutions described; hence the course goes beyond the text of constitutions and statutes, and seeks to describe the actual practice of officials, legislative bodies, and political parties and organizations. For the subjects to be discussed see List of Lectures, Manual, 96-124. Course F, a briefer course in government, deals also with the principles of American government in practice. See List of Lectures, Manual, 125-133. 3. Students' Work in each of the Courses. Neither the courses in United States political history nor in diplomatic history are supposed to be a complete survey of the whole field. The object of the instruction is not so much to furnish a body of information as to train students to apply what they learn, and to compare that knowledge with the new ideas which come to them. Since they are meant to be training courses rather than information courses, neither of them forms a complete chronological sequence; they suggest the essential elements of American history and diplomacy, and discuss the things which have really made a difference in the development of the country. The instructor in his lectures should suggest proportions and arrangements of facts, and show the connection of events with each other; he should lay stress upon historical geography, especially the territorial growth of the country. Details are to be filled in by the student from his parallel reading. Since listening to lectures and reading both tend...
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