Discusses a study which examined influences of teaching methods and classroom environment on motivation, attention, and concept attainment of high school social studies students. (Author/DB)

Maintains that schools are political as well as educational institutions because they control selection of what is taught, in what context, by whom, and for what purposes. Investigates perceptions of political restraint among preservice teachers based on their student teaching experiences. (Author/DB)

Poses eight hypotheses developed from educational change literature to explain why schools abandon innovative practices and materials in the social studies. Some explanations are that the innovation's major advocate is no longer present and that teachers had unrealistic expectations about how an innovation would perform. (Author/DB)

Presents a theoretical model that attempts to lessen the fragmentation of skill instruction in social studies. The model uses reasoning as a goal toward which social studies instruction can move. Curriculum implications relative to skill coordination are discussed. (Author/DB)

Teacher certifiers have the responsibility to professionalize the field of physical education. (LH)

The "Healthy Life-styles" course at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln uses both short-term assignments, designed to reinforce the cognitive principles of physical education, and long-term "contracts," which utilize those health concepts as catalysts toward beneficial behavior modifications. (LH)

Observations pertinent to physical education on the middle school level, recorded during a general educational tour of mainland China in 1978, are presented. (LH)

The cultural exchange program between preservice physical education teachers of Springfield College and Aruba is described as highly successful. (LH)

This experiment in developing badminton skills in senior citizens illustrates the many possibilities for athletics in the aging community. (LH)

Edmund Peyson Weston's long and remarkable career as the father of walking speaks for the benefits of regular exercise through pedestrian activities and a simple life-style based on a moderate approach to eating and personal habits. (LH)

The biological and the cultural aspects of human play are inextricably linked and mutually influence each other. (LH)

The pattern of the changing attitudes of Western society towards child's play reflects the turbulence and variety of general social, political, philosophical, and educational developments. (LH)

The free play behavior of young children allows the opportunity to actively explore, investigate, and manipulate features of the adult world, and to assimilate the characteristics of novel aspects of the environment. (Author)

Children have a need and a right to active, movement-oriented play. With the aid of an imaginative parent, such play can assist in the maturation of a child's cognitive ability and serve as a means of developing basic motor skills. (LH)

The important intrinsic rewards of play present in athletic endeavour are being subjugated to wider societal pressures such as achievement orientation and overly competitive attitudes. (LH)