The Cross-National Study of Coping Styles and Achievement was designed to develop a conceptual system for describing effective coping behavior in several cultures; to develop measures of coping style and coping effectiveness which would be uniformly applicable in the various cultures; and to determine the relationship of such coping behavior to…

The manual conceptualizes the community college mission as it is differentiated from that of the junior college, the trade institute, and the university. In a time when urbanization and industrialization have led to a loss of sense of community and when even education has become increasingly centralized and depersonalized, the community college…

This pamphlet presents guidelines for the improvement of the image of women in textbooks. General guidelines for the text and illustrations of textbooks are: (1) the actions and achievements of women should be recognized; (2) women and girls should be given the same respect as men and boys; and (3) abilities, traits, interests, and activities…

The academic community is very concerned at this time to develop measures of professor adequacy against which to validate students' evaluations. Sweney and Weston (1970) found ten independent dimensions which explain attitudes and expectancies of their professors. These became the basis for the Learning Encounter Measure (LEM). Many of these…

In a cognitive-developmental analysis of achievement and moral judgments, 300 black and white subjects aged 4-18 made moral and achievement evaluative judgments in sixteen situations. The situations differed according to the intent (effort) and ability of the person being judged, and in the objective consequences of the behavior. Analysis of…

The author presents a fully annotated bibliography of 80 items relating to the subject of ghostwriting of public addresses and other forms of persuasive communication. Most of the items deal with ghostwriting in the areas of political persuasion and public relations, although some general entries are included. Topics of the material range from…

The content and components that can be included in the social studies curriculum are dependent upon how the discipline is defined. If social studies is not simply an offshoot of social sciences, but, rather a required general education program concerned with the preparation of citizens for reflective participation in a democratic society and with…

The previous history of unsystematic practice of educational evaluation has created for the present evaluator a set of problems resulting from a tradition of fear, mistrust, suspicion and disbelief among the educational community. Absences of evidence of critical influence have resulted in the underfunding of evaluation. Common problems faced by…

This paper focusses on problems involved in adopting the newer modes of social science and professionalism. The complexities which precede these problems are recognized. It is mentioned that many recent entrants to these fields have made value commitments in their professionalism without very long detention at the portals of objectivity or…

This report suggests that the goals of the 4-H youth programs in working in urban communities with inner-city young people are similar to those for rural area youth. They are: (1) to assist youth to understand his local community and the larger society, and to aid him in participating more effectively in community life; (2) to assist the youth to…

This report covers the first year of the pilot program described in SO 002 228. The basic objective of the project is exploration of the meaning of environmental education at the community level. It aims at a K-12 environmental curriculum that is sequential, integrated, holistic, process-, field-, problem-, and community-oriented, and initiated…

The purpose of this study guide is to provide a structured aid for developing an understanding of the basic differences between, and the values of, democracy and communism. It is designed to highlight the differences in the development and establishment of these two systems, the basic values upon which each is founded, the differences in their…

World Affairs continuing education provides the focus of this study. The sections of the publication are as follows: I. What Is Continuing Education?; II. Trends in the Conceptualization of International Studies; III. Trends in Substantive Organization; IV. Trends in Substantive Noncurricular Organization; V. Intra- and Inter-Organization for…

Today's students are very much interested in films, but discussing films as if they are literature, or as if there are "right" answers about them (the teacher's), will kill off that interest quickly. A better technique is to discuss the feelings which the film's images generate among class members, and to go on from there into larger questions…

THIS DOCUMENT STATES THAT BETWEEN 1952 AND 1961 APPROXIMATELY 50,000 RESERVATION INDIANS WERE ASSISTED BY THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS TO RELOCATE IN MANY OF THE LARGER METROPOLITAN AREAS OF THE UNITED STATES. THEIR SUCCESS IN CITY LIFE HAS BEEN LARGELY DEPENDENT UPON SATISFACTORY ADJUSTMENT TO THE LOCAL URBAN COMMUNITY LIFE SO FOREIGN TO THEM.…