Describes environmental education's successes and failures during the 1970s and identifies tasks for the decade ahead. Cooperative efforts have produced better results than have searches for federal leadership and funding. In the 1980s environmental educators must acknowledge, but not dwell upon, their differences in philosophy and approach. (WB)

This article is a lecture given at the 1979 meeting of the British Association for Science Education (ASE). It presents strategies for education in the 1980s as perceived by the lecturer. (HM)

Describes methods used in a project at George Washington University's Rehabilitation Research and Training Center to predict and classify a family's involvement in a patient's rehabilitation program. As family attitudes can enhance or damage a program's effectiveness, early identification of uncooperative families is necessary so that intervention…

Discussed are current and future environmental limitations and problems in energy, pollution, resources, and food supply occurring because industrialized man has considered himself as apart from nature. A reading list for those concerned with the future of mankind is provided. (BT)

Explains how law education within a social studies program can help students understand civil rights, criminal justice, environmental protection, the court system, and value conflicts. Journal availability: see SO 507 149. (Author/DB)

Problems facing western societies during the 1980s are predicted in this article. Energy-related social upheaval may be ahead. (SA)

The kindergarten and first grade characteristics of 47 intermediate grade educationally handicapped (EH) students were compared with characteristics of a group of normally achieving controls. (CL)

Earlier project reports compared childhood social behavior of nonmigratory schizophrenics and normal classmates by analyzing teachers' comments in school records. This article expands the sample to include migratory schizophrenics and analyzes childhood intellectual functioning. Behavioral differences indicated emotional immaturity and social…

Describes the initial attempt to develop a SPART, Self-Perceived Abilities Relevant in the Task, inventory, the results and discussion of that attempt including its predictive validity, and speculations on the practical and theoretical implications of the SPART construct and instrument. (Author/RK)

A member of the Commission on the Year 2000 recalls the practical hazards and psychic rewards of forecasting the future of a nation. (Editor/LBH)

Describes a single futures, decision-oriented research project conducted in a large urban school district administrative staff development program. (Author/IRT)

Parent and child characteristics, family context, and teacher behavior and attitudes were examined as factors influencing parent involvement in children's schooling for 209 mothers and their children (grades 3 through 5) and 28 teachers. Results and the hierarchical model posited underscore the complexity of factors associated with parental…

Examined optimism, generalized self-efficacy, and interactions between these variables, along with member expectancies for group, as predictors of growth group outcomes. Results based on student responses (N=19) indicate that the ability of initial expectancies to predict outcome depended on the level of generalized self-efficacy. (RJM)