Social Science Media Offered by Penn State Media Sales
Social Science Media Offered by Penn State Media Sales
| Quest for Peace: Albert Carnesale More on DVD Version | This series of interviews, conducted by John M. Whiteley, professor of social ecology and social science at the University of California at Irvine, features a diverse group of educators, scientists, politicians, industrialists, and government and military officials concerned with the quest for world peace. In the first program, Albert Carnesale, dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, explains the most likely ways that a nuclear war might begin, describes ten principles for avoiding nuclear war, and identifies three perspectives on how best to solve the nuclear dilemma. |
| Teacher to Teacher: Language and Literacy -- Transacting with Literature More on DVD Version | Shows the use of both fiction and nonfiction to help pupils understand and value literature. One group of eight- and nine-year-olds reads books about Japan and holds group discussions, and is involved in related science and social studies activities. In another group, ten- and eleven-year-olds discuss the critical events of several books related to the central theme of understanding others, illustrating in the process both the management aspects of this strategy and the teacher-led discussion techniques. |
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