370 Education370 Education

Joan S. MitchellEditor in Chief, DDC

Dewey Breakfast/UpdateALA Midwinter Meeting

BostonJanuary 16, 2010

370 Education

• 372.3-372.8 Primary education in specific subjects

• 372-374, 378 Levels of education

Specific subjects:Interdisciplinary approach at 372.3

Specific subjects: 372.34 Computers

Specific subjects: Home and family management (1)

372[.82] Home and family management

Relocated to 372.37

Specific subjects: Home and family management (2)

372.37 *Personal health and safety; social skills

Including comprehensive works on home and family management [formerly 372.82]

Class here life skills

Subdivisions are added for personal health and safety, social skills together; for personal health and safety together; for personal health alone

Class food in 372.373; class social skills in 372.374

For sewing, see 372.54; for physical education, see 372.86

Specific subjects: Home and family management (3)

372.374 *Social skills

  Class here family life, interpersonal relationships

Specific subjects: Social studies (1)

372.83 *Civics (Citizenship)

Comprehensive works on social studies relocated to 372.89

 372[.832] Civics (Citizenship)

  Number discontinued; class in 372.83

 

 

Specific subjects: Social studies (2)

372.89 History and geography

  Standard subdivisions are added for history and geography together, for history alone

  Class here comprehensive works on social studies [formerly 372.82]; civilization

For environmental studies, see 372.357; for social skills, see 372.374; for civics, see 372.83

  

Specific subjects: 372.6 Language arts (Communication skills)

New option in English-language edition:

(Option: Class here language arts (communication skills)

in a language other than English; in that case, class language arts (communication skills) in English in 372.6521)

New option in German-language edition:

(Option: Hier auch Sprachkompetenz (Kommunikationsfertigkeiten) in einer anderen Sprache als Deutsch; klassifiziere in diesem Fall Sprachkompetenz (Kommunikationsfertigkeiten) in Deutsch in 372.6531)

 

Specific subjects: 372.65 Foreign languages and bilingual

instruction (1)

Specific subjects: 372.65 Foreign languages and bilingual

instruction (2)

Levels of Education

•372 Primary education (Elementary education)

•373 Secondary education

•374 Adult education

•378 Higher education (Tertiary education)

Levels of Education: 372 (1)

Levels of Education: 372 (2)

Levels of Education: 372 (3)

372[.216] Nursery schools

  Number discontinued; class in 372.21

 

372.218 Kindergarten

 

370 Education: Primary subjects and levels of education

• Discussion paper on Dewey web site http://www.oclc.org/dewey/discussion/papers/education_discussion_paper.pdf

• Comments by February 27, 2010 to mitchelj@oclc.org