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50 Years of ERIC
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The Relationship between Attitudes toward Censorship and Selected Academic Variables.
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Dwyer, Edward J.; Summy, Mary K. – Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, 1989
To examine characteristics of subjects relative to their attitudes toward censorship, a study surveyed 98 college students selected from students in a public university in the southeastern United States. A 24-item Likert-style censorship scale was used to measure attitudes toward censorship. Strong agreement with affirmative items would suggest…
Descriptors: Censorship, Cloze Procedure, Educational Research, Higher Education
Women's Studies.
Davis, James E., Ed.; Davis, Hazel K., Ed. – Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, 1981
The 16 articles in this journal issue deal with women's studies within the English curriculum. Topics discussed in the articles include (1) the feminist challenge to the male-centered curriculum in higher education; (2) the women's movement and women's studies; (3) connotations of the word "girl"; (4) women in English education; (5) the new…
Descriptors: Creativity, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Feminism
Global Education.
Berkley, June, Ed. – Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, 1982
The articles in this collection deal with various methods of global education--education to prepare students to function as understanding and informed citizens of the world. Topics discussed in the 26 articles include: (1) the necessity of global education; (2) global education in the elementary school language arts curriculum; (3) science fiction…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Current Events, Curriculum Development
The Licking County Writing Project.
Davis, James E., Ed.; Davis, Hazel K., Ed. – Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, 1982
The 24 articles in this special journal resulted from the Licking County (Ohio) Writing Project. The articles provide information about the following: (1) how to motivate students and teachers, (2) prewriting activities, (3) lightening the teacher's grading load, (4) the uses of conferences, (5) sustained silent reading, (6) traditional techniques…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement, Prewriting, Student Motivation
Responding to the Basics Movement.
Davis, James E., Ed.; And Others – Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, 1979
The 17 articles in this journal issue focus on a response to the basics movement. Specific topics covered in the articles include the following: a definition of literacy, the meaning of the basics, the back-to-the-basics movement from a historical-linguistic perspective, behavior modification and the teaching of English composition, developing…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Fiction for Adolescents: Theory and Practice.
Davis, James E., Ed. – Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, 1977
The 12 articles in this publication discuss the following topics: an author's considerations in writing a novel for adolescents; the teacher as fictional character in adolescent literature; such themes of adolescent novels as institutional values, the illegitimate heroine, and the war experience; the importance of a cumulative study of literature…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Book Reviews, Characterization