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Reyes, Manuel C. – 1977
A migrant child is one who has moved with his family from one school district to another during the preceding 12 months so that a parent or other immediate family member might secure employment in agricultural or fishery activity. In California, the 92,000 migrants living in 48 of the state's 58 counties include Chicanos, Mexican Americans,…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Definitions, Educational Needs, Ethnic Groups
Jewett, Ann E. – 1978
The nature of education needed in the future is discussed with particular reference to those in the physical and health education fields. Anticipating great social change in the course of the next two decades, the role of the physical education teacher is regarded as an expanding one. Three stages of development in curriculum for these teachers…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Futures (of Society), Goal Orientation
Eckstein, Daniel G. – 1977
This paper discusses some of the author's experiences in two sexually homogeneous environments, a male juvenile correctional facility and a four-year womens college, from an Adlerian perspective. Although unrelated, the two populations have important similarities and differences, such as that incarcerated male juveniles and college females often…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, College Students
Wharton, Keith – 1975
The purpose of the School of Survival (S.O.S.) is to provide an alternative educational program for 9th, 10th and 11th grade students from North Community High School whose life styles are not compatible with formal/traditional educational programs. There were six major goals for the project for 1974-75. These dealt with student participation in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Educational Programs, High School Students
Black, Augustus Melton – 1975
The small rural community of Cherryville, North Carolina was examined to determine the relationship between its cultural background and its decision making processes. Specific objectives were to: (1) identify and record insights into the culture of the community; (2) include and preserve an accurate record of the cultural practices and beliefs;…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Community Attitudes, Consolidated Schools, Cultural Background
King, Paul R. – 1971
The study's purpose was to compile descriptive information about a small band of Algonquin Indian seasonal agricultural workers from Quebec, Canada who migrate annually into Ontario County, New York to work on the fur and poultry farms. Although these Indians have worked in the State since 1945, no "serious" study had been made which…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, American Indians, Audiovisual Aids, Cultural Awareness
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Goodman, James M. – 1976
The Hopi and Navajo tribes have been engaged in a long and complex land dispute within the 1882 Executive Order Area (Joint Use Area) of Arizona, an area recently redefined via the Partition Act of 1974 which calls for the relocation of 5 to 10,000 Navajos. This rearrangement of political domain threatens to influence the future management and…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Conflict, Cultural Differences
Seig, Louis – 1976
Analysis of the spatial organization of Northeastern Arizona and the Navajo-Hopi land dispute affords the geographer ample opportunity to investigate the concepts of: cultural confrontation; spatial competition; the politics of enclaves and exclaves; the herding vs the farming economy; cross-cultural perceptions of boundaries and territories; the…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Conflict
Sacarto, Douglas – 1975
Five hundred and sixty-seven books and articles published mainly in the early 1970's on topics of growth and its relation to education are included in this bibliography. The listing is divided into the following 28 subcategories: growth and equilibrium, energy, environment and health, resources and land, population, business and economics,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Economic Development
Russell, Candyce S. – 1975
Interest in the transition to parenthood has been sustained at a remarkably high level ever since LeMasters did his pioneering study in 1957. His study was interesting theoretically from the standpoint of both the family development perspective as well as Simmel's classic proposition that the triad is inherently the most unstable of human groups.…
Descriptors: Family Life, Life Style, Literature Reviews, Parent Child Relationship
Kalivoda, Theodore B. – 1974
This paper aims at increasing the cultural impact which overseas programs can have on their participants. Too often such programs rely on cultural learning through haphazard and chance experiences. In its stead, a carefully organized program of cultural knowledge and experiences is advanced. Centered around a thematic approach to analysis of the…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Culture Contact
Dunn, Helen – 1973
As part of a continuing program designed to provide Nevada's school population with information that will facilitate greater awareness and understanding of past and present Native Nevadan lifestyles and contributions, this generalized curriculum guide might constitute a social studies unit for upper elementary and/or junior high schools. Areas…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Cultural Interrelationships
Eiduson, Bernice T.; And Others – 1973
This report describes a pilot project that is investigating the childrearing practices of individuals who have chosen living arrangements different from the traditional two-parent family. Alternative life styles include these groups: (1) unmarried parents who live together, (2) single or unwed mothers, and (3) participants in communes. Depth…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Community, Family Attitudes, Family (Sociological Unit)
Peterson, Marla; And Others – 1974
The publication is one of a series produced by the Enrichment of Teacher and Counselor Competencies in Career Education Project (ETC Project). The Project was designed to (1) develop, evaluate, and disseminate career education curriculum guides, (2) develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate sample teaching learning modules, and (3) develop,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes, Career Development, Career Education
Marland, S. P., Jr. – 1972
The past decade has been a time of grim realization of the shortcomings of education and especially its resistance to internal reform, resulting in the erosion of the confidence of the people. Marland called his embryonic concept of reform career education, and it had as its birthplace the community junior college which denied the need to…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
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