In response to various pressures for change, the university will have to adopt a new purpose that may be recognized as a means of increasing the capability of society for continuous self-renewal. (Author/HS)

Calls for a social studies program aimed at the current social agenda and a unified humanities program aimed at helping each student in his personal becoming. (Author/JF)

Discusses whether Sangamon State University, a new university committed to involvement in Public Affairs issues of today, should provide facilities and instruments for basic science research. Conclusions recommend such research and maintain that science be authentic, critical, interdisciplinary and effectively related to the needs of students and…

Outlines proceedings and consequences of conference and workshop where social and biological scientists and teachers interacted to plan interdisciplinary courses. (AL)

Advocates interdisciplinary courses teaching awareness of the interrelationships between science, technology, and society. Processes five themes which should be treated, giving references. Suggests the creation of independent departments of science-technology and society. (EB)

Article illustrates the possibility of building a liberal education for undergraduates around interdisciplinary study of the cultural antecedents of the modern world. (Editor)

The programs that will become the chief medium for giving women's studies a permanent place in the academic world are those in which scholars with other intellectual affiliations and interests work simultaneously (1) to develop women's studies and (2) to integrate its materials into the long-established university department. (MLW)

Recommends that education should be general and integrated, rather than fragmented into many discrete subject matters. Suggests 10 questions around which an integrated social studies curriculum can be built. Questions include "How can poetry and physics interact?""How can vision be added to our fund of facts?", and "What is the relationship…

Investigates how much time primary schools spend on science, what should count as science, and what the different ways are that science appears in the curriculum. Uses findings from a survey conducted with schools in the Victorian Science in Schools (SIS) research project as well as case studies. (KHR)

This article focuses on the different interpretations of art reflected in six of the essays on art in educational research and teaching in this journal issue, the related views of knowledge that they imply, the tones and colors of the essay voices, and the ramifications for research, curriculum, and teaching that can be drawn from this work. (JB)

Provides a critical review of the present state of environmental education in the formal sector of education in Uganda. Recommends an improved approach to formal environmental education based on a multidisciplinary foundation that embraces the biophysical environment, people, culture, politics, and socioeconomic systems. (LZ)

Two teacher researchers examined the nature of mentoring relationships occurring among and between team teachers at one middle school as they planned for and taught a common group of students. There were five types of (simultaneous) mentoring among teachers: collaborative, clerical, professional teacher, interdisciplinary content, and…