Discusses the status of children in American society and offers ideas for helping adults understand children better. (FL)

In the face of today's challenging social and family issues, many new efforts are underway to help children and families. One solution that many communities have adopted is the establishment of a collaborative partnership that involves all the relevant partners--home, school, and community--in the planning and monitoring of services for children.…

Basic human skills and learning environments necessary to develop them are prerequisites for preparing people to learn to deal with the future of mankind. (KM)

Described is a program initiated by the social work staff of a hospital mental retardation unit which involved locating and screening citizen advocates to serve as friend, big brother, social worker, and legal counselor to retarded patients. (GW)

Engineering students who have been taught to question, to challenge, and to see the whole situation in a problem will optimize the solution with due regard to the environmental effects. (MU)

When supported by school and community facilities and reinforced by workplace health education, the family can serve as an effective channel for health education and the implementation and practice of wellness activities. (LH)

Focuses on the role that citizen groups--both grass roots and nationally affiliated--play in local communities, examines the history of these groups, describes their activities, presents research findings, and sketches library service trends in several communities. References are included. (FM)

Interviewed 462 Kenyan parents, grandparents, children, preschool teachers, community leaders, and professionals working with children and families to examine impacts of social and economic change on early childhood. Found the most common theme was the issue of increasing poverty and related problems. Also noted family changes, such as the rapid…

Advocates providing health and human services in cooperation with public schools. Reports on the work of the federally sponsored School-Linked Integrated Services Study Team, which examined the development and implementation of integrated services, and found resistance to such change among some service providers. (MDM)

Examines e-mail as a viable instructional tool to enable preservice teachers to bridge multicultural-education theory and practice. Explores students' construction of knowledge about diversity, and considers the development of community, professional and personal links between Saginaw Valley State University and Purdue University students…

Inquisitiveness is what drives children's learning. Cognitive scientists have devised constructivist theory to explain how an individual progresses from curiosity to new knowledge. Formal schooling has struggled unsuccessfully to simulate real-life learning situations. Emerging brain research supports bringing the community into the learning…

This issue of the "CETAC E-Newsletter" focuses on community involvement in character education. The Partnerships in Character Education Program (PCEP), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, follows the spirit of the enabling legislation by emphasizing the important role the community has in student learning. PCEP grantees are required to…