Both participant and non-participant observation were used to analyze longitudinally a single group of black ghetto children in their school, homes, and with their friends. A basic goal of the study is said to consist in accounting for the educational experience of children over time. Two beginning chapters describe public schools and American…

This activity, the fifth in a set of elementary teacher-developed units for geography, is intended to help teachers in developing an ecological unit. It examines pollution problems in the United States through observation and inquiry. An environmental walk activity is outlined that can be performed in any area near a school. It provides an…

This introductory booklet is designed to provide the teacher and the student with a strong basic framework within which both can study the urban environment. The booklet contains six lessons which look at the environment as a physical place, personal place, and social organization. Each lesson contains three sections: What You May Learn,…

This collection of activities, experiences, and resources focuses on the man-made environment. The activities and resources were compiled to facilitate a program based upon the teacher's and student's own living experiences in their own environment. The goals of the program are to develop the individual's awareness of his environment and…

Sixty-three learning activities comprise this curriculum guide to conservation education designed for elementary students. The activities enable the teacher to relate the urban child's immediate environment to the ecological problems which confront our world. Four conceptual schemes are used for each of the four grades, K-3: Living things (plants,…

This bibliography on urbanization is divided into two sections. The first section contains articles pertaining to urbanization in Canada; the second section contains non-Canadian items. Topics covered include rural-urban migration, employment, urban environment, public finance, city problems, economic development, urban planning, population change…

Academic and popular writings on the causes, effects, and responses to urban disorders are cited in this bibliography. Although many earlier works are represented, most of the material cited is from the years between 1954 and 1968. Each citation is listed under one of ten broad subject categories. Under each heading, the citations are arranged…

Contained in this record of proceedings are (1) workshop reports on priorities in research and recommended actions concerning black rhetoric, campus conflict, community relations, speech education for the disadvantaged, language and speech acquisition and development, and field studies; (2) a keynote address, on "Student Activism and Academic…

Three purposes of the institute were: (1) identify needs of ghetto disadvantaged who can be reached by libraries, (2) explore means of responding effectively to these needs and (3) develop administrative approaches and procedures for implementing experimental library programs. Early planning decisions which contributed to the success of the…

An appendix to a staff paper on telecommunications in urban development, submitted to the President's Task Force on Communications Policy, describes possible uses of new communications technology in the ghetto. Television, the most widely spread and most promising medium, has potential for improving education, increasing community awareness, and…

In the next decade, the American campus will be under constant pressure from minorities, industry, welfare departments and hospitals to help improve urban life. These pressures will be so great that the university's only alternative to lack of commitment will be the discovery of a new "American" concept of education, such as the creation of an…

Since the 1950's the Ford Foundation has spent some $36 million trying to promote a closer link-up between American universities and the problems of American cities. This document reviews the foundation's experience and some of the lessons from it and speculates about the future. Since the foundation has not yet fully evaluated the results of this…

This volume is an attempt to broaden the perspective of poverty in America by making the reader more aware of the larger and more universal aspects of this problem. The first chapter, an "Introduction," argues that a very narrow view of poverty is prevalent in the U.S. In the second chapter, "Material Deprivation: An Historical View," certain…

Signs/Lights/Boston, a project investigating environmental information systems in urban areas, was undertaken as the first step in a process of planning and controlling signs and lights for purposes of improving the flow of information in the city. This resulting report takes the city as it is and develops explicit means for revealing its form,…

An environmental simulation laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, is testing the adequacy of different techniques for simulating environmental experiences. Various levels of realism, with various costs, are available in different presentation modes. The simulations can aid in communication about and the resolution of environmental…