The development of health education in the schools from 1600 to 1980 is traced. (JD)

Provides results from a nationwide survey of educators conducted to determine their perceptions of change in image of the public community college during the 1970's in the areas of growth and management, programs offered, faculty, students, and other changes in policies, programs, or procedures. (DMM)

Discusses attitudes of educators toward immigrant children since the mid 19th century. Concludes that prejudice and ethnocentrism in American schools and society have now been replaced by the ideal of cultural pluralism. (ST)

Traces the path of library revolution in Information and Referral (I&R) Services from 1969 to the present. (Author/MBR)

The library profession's attitude regarding national and international issues, and issues within the profession during the last decade are recalled. (MBR)

The developments over the past decade in the use of on-line systems by libraries are recounted. Cost is discussed as an initial deterrent, and then as a catalyst for change. (MBR)

Despite higher qualifications, academic librarians still lack equality with faculty. (MBR)

The organizational development of the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) is given for the period from 1948 to 1975. Based on a theory of organization developed by Daniel Katz and Robert Kahn, the Federation's progress is charted through the primary, stable, and elaborate stages of development. Questions concerning conflict…

An historical overview of investigations concerned with delineating the structure and composition of infant intellectual activity is presented. Earlier conceptualizations characterized infant intelligence as a unitary trait or factor. Recent studies contend that infant intellectual activity is comprised of varied sets of relatively independent…

From 1908 to 1918, Lewis Hine, educator and photographer, gave new meaning to the camera as an educational tool for social change. Published by the National Child Labor Committee, Hine's photo essays of exploited urban and rural children were intended to instigate reform. This essay with photographs describes Hine's crusade. (SG)

Presented is a history of higher education for women that explores the changing circumstances that made it possible for a woman, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Psicopia, to earn a university degree. Topics include the education of women in ancient society, Christianity's influence, the rise of universities, and changes caused by the humanists. (JMD)

Traces perceptions of the role of early two-year colleges, comparing the public's view of junior colleges as transfer institutions with professionals view of them as terminal institutions. Cites views of leaders of the junior college movement, faculty and staff attitudes, and popular aspirations. Updates the debate over two-year colleges' role.…

Traces the denigration of discursive prose back through the "New Criticism" to Romanticism and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who saw poetry as special and separate from other rhetoric. Notes that discursive prose can be just as creative and interesting as poetry. Urges composition teachers to shift their point of view accordingly. (RL)

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)

Highlights the changes in bibliographic processing that have taken place over the past decade with increased automation and on-line systems, and cooperation between libraries. (MBR)