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1. Colonizing Our Future: The Commercial Transformation of America's Schools.

Author

Molnar, Alex

Abstract

Discusses the issue of schoolhouse commercialism including historical background. Addresses the growth of commercialism in schools and explores two types of schoolhouse commercialism: (1) soft drink contracts, and (2) sponsored educational materials. Explains why schools are attractive to advertisers and reports on the opposition to schoolhouse commercialism. (CMK)

Published
2000

2. West German Teachers on Today's Issues.

Author

Molnar, Alex

Abstract

In 1983, elementary and secondary teachers in West Germany were surveyed concerning the treatment of social themes in school curricula. As in a similar survey conducted in the United States, West German respondents indicated that every theme surveyed was important, with nuclear disarmament and environmental pollution clearly considered the most important. (RM)

Published
1984

3. Colonizing Our Future: The Commercial Transformation of America's Schools

Author

MOLNAR, ALEX

Subjects
Schools -- Ethical aspects -- United States, Public relations -- Usage -- Social aspects -- Analysis, Corporations -- Ethical aspects -- Analysis -- Usage -- Social aspects, Advertising media -- Usage -- Analysis -- Social aspects, Public schools -- Social aspects -- Usage -- Analysis, Students as consumers -- Analysis -- Ethical aspects, Education, Social sciences, Social aspects, Analysis, Usage, Ethical aspects
Abstract

AMERICA'S SCHOOLS are indeed haunted. The uneasy spirit of John Dewey, as Bill Doll suggests in 'Ghosts and the Curriculum,'(1) wanders the corridors of public education watching and waiting for [...]

Published
2000

4. Results of the ASCD/NCSS Social Issues Survey: Are the Issues Studied in School the Important Issues Facing Humankind?

Author

Molnar, Alex

Abstract

According to National Council for the Social Studies and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development respondents, the issues deemed important--nuclear disarmament, pollution, worldwide wealth and poverty, and alternatives to the U.S. social-economic-political system--are not included in the social studies to the extent they should be. (RM)

Published
1983

5. Studying the Nazi Period: Some Considerations.

Author

Molnar, Alex

Abstract

Students should be taught how to make well-reasoned and analytic judgments about the Nazis. The process of arriving at judgments about the Nazi period should be characterized by a factual knowledge of the Nazi era within a general historical knowledge of the period, sympathy, and an open mind. (RM)

Published
1984

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