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Taylor, Robert S. – Library Journal, 1979
Sketches a new educational framework for library science students to integrate library science into the field of information science and discusses six areas of future development. Major problems for the new information environment are information imbalance, availability of information, information literacy, and the need to maintain a human aspect.…
Descriptors: Development, Environmental Influences, Essays, Futures (of Society)
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James, Dilmus D.; Evans, John S. – International Migration Review, 1979
This paper examines factors contributing to the flow of undocumented migrants from Mexico, demonstrating the problem to be both massive and enduring. Focused on are the inadequate growth of productive employment, income inequality, and rapid population growth. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Economic Status, Employment Opportunities, Essays, Illegal Immigrants
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Stein, Barry N. – International Migration Review, 1979
This paper provides a detailed description of the pattern of occupational adjustment of the Vietnamese refugees to the United States and compares their experiences with other recent refugee and immigrant groups. (Author)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Employment Experience, Employment Opportunities, Essays
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Wedow, Suzanne – Urban Life, 1979
Focusing on a group of drug users, this article examines behavioral and attitudinal coping strategies in paranoia and illustrates how the management of paranoia may create elaborate interaction rituals which serve both to "protect" group participants and to reinforce a collective orientation among them. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Drug Abuse, Essays, Group Behavior
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Broadhead, Geoffrey D. – Journal of Special Education, 1979
The paper discusses the lack of governmental guidance in providing for the rights of handicapped children in Scotland. (PHR)
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Essays, Foreign Countries
Avery, Robert K.; Pepper, Robert – Public Telecommunications Review, 1979
Presents a brief history of the struggle over public telecommunication's use of the satellite interconnection, a struggle in which private stations rejected the Public Broadcasting System, culminating in an alternative for system governance of the interconnection. (Author)
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Communications Satellites, Educational Technology, Essays
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Morocco, Catherine Cobb – Curriculum Inquiry, 1979
A developmental view of program evaluation is offered that suggests that each stage requires a different purpose and method. This perspective is illustrated in a description of evaluation procedures used to assess a child development program for adolescents. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Curriculum Development, Educational Programs
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Corson, Lynn A. – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1979
Discusses the implications of the Weber decision which focus on the Supreme Court's interpretation of racial imbalance and the emphasis of the decision on the private sector. (RLV)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Essays
Roberts, David J. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1978
Describes how an educational broker accomplishes the task of successfully matching educational resources with the needs of his adult education customer: the role of the educational broker, establishment of his database, accessing the data, publicizing the center, delivery of service, and the library's role/responsibility. (Author/JD)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Counselor Role, Databases, Essays
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Gomes, Ralph C. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1979
The Guyanese setting, the development of the new coalition of Guyanese elites, their objective interest and nationalist politics, and the social profile of the new elite of Guyana are discussed in this paper. (Author/RLV)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Developing Nations, Essays, Leadership
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Henig, Robin Marantz – BioScience, 1979
Discusses the issue of faculty unionization on college campuses. The case of Yeshiva University is presented as the future of unions in the 1980s is considered by the Supreme Court. (SA)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Administrators, College Faculty, College Governing Councils
Keller, Joseph – Improving College and University Teaching, 1979
It is suggested that the teaching of English will be benefited when future teachers are trained to view the mechanisms of their language from the standpoint of the total function of these mechanisms in human interaction. Linguistics must be taught with reference to the social bases of speech and to its primary purpose, the achievement of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English Education, English Instruction, Essays
Hargreaves, David H. – New Universities Quarterly, 1979
Fundamental problems within the field of educational psychology include: changes in traditional psychological concepts of intelligence and psychometrics, conflicts in the type of research undertaken, quality of instruction, an overall tendency toward a lack of confidence among educational psychologists, and a narrow perception of their field. (BH)
Descriptors: Departments, Educational Problems, Educational Psychology, Essays
Oberweiser, David – Indian Historian, 1979
This article examines the impact of Seneca Indian culture on Lewis H. Morgan, the American ethnologist who formulated the science of human kinship. (RTS)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Cross Cultural Studies, Essays
Leesley, M. E.; Williams, M. L. – Engineering Education, 1979
A program is described which integrates technical writing into the introduction to a chemical engineering course at the University of Texas. The students write seven essays on engineering topics. The essays are graded by teaching assistants from the English department. (BB)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Engineering Education, Essays, Higher Education
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