Examined predictors of cigarette smoking and alcohol use in nationwide sample of 1,200 Icelandic adolescents. Found that use of tobacco and alcohol was related to sex, residence, hours of paid work, physical activities, social network, educational performance and beliefs, and psychological distress. Concludes that existing theoretical perspectives…

Describes "Site Omaha" an interactive public arts project designed to explore alternative art venues in the urban environment and to create a common link between artists and other community members. "Site Omaha" initiated innovative community arts projects. Provides a brief overview of urban environmental art. (MJP)

This qualitative study that allowed children to be the dominant voice examined children's stories of hope. Twenty-nine kindergarten children through to third graders were interviewed using familiar school items: story board, pictures, puppets, and so on. One elementary school, located in a large southwestern metropolitan city, was selected for…

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being used to study and address environmental justice. This article presents the results of a cross-site case study of four CBPR partnerships in the United States that researched environmental health problems and worked to educate legislators and promote relevant public policy. The…

This set of curriculum materials geared to Oneida, Sioux, and Winnebago cultures represents a response to a need to modify the Chicago public school curriculum for use with Indian children as more American Indian groups moved to the city, and is designed to integrate specific cultural content into language arts and social studies curricula.…

A literature search in the area of vocational education for special needs persons indicated a lack of a needs assessment survey that would help identify the problems of the urban handicapped population in terms of the influence of the total environment on this population. Therefore, a research effort was made with the following objectives: (1) the…

The 1978 study, which was the first to use the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire (OSIQ) with rural youth, compared the self-image of rural and urban adolescent girls and sustained the hypothesis that adolescents in larger communities think more highly of themselves than adolescents in rural communities. Most previous studies, ambiguous with regard to…

WIDESPREAD CHANGES IN RURAL AMERICAN LIFE HAVE RESULTED IN THE CONCEPT OF URBANIZED SOCIAL ORGANIZATION--THE REACTION AND INTERACTION OF RURAL AND URBAN CITIZENS TO THE SAME PATTERN OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. THE ENTIRE POPULATION HAS BECOME SUBJECT TO URBAN-DERIVED SOCIAL STRUCTURES. FACTORS SUCH AS TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT AND MASS MEDIA…

This study of school districts in the Kansas City and St. Louis metropolitan areas is part of a larger study entitled, "School District Organization for Missouri" (ED 026 171). After a discussion of political, social, and economic factors affecting schools in most metropolitan areas, the paper focuses on Kansas City and St. Louis, where gross…

The social studies curriculum guide for levels K-6 focuses on urban studies emphasizing the effect of urban living on a multi-ethnic population. The ultimate program goal is to develop children who will become action-oriented and responsible decision makers. An inquiry method of teaching is used throughout the course. The foci for grades K-6 are…

An evaluation of the demonstration Urban Conservation Project (UCP) produced by WGBH, Boston's public television station, is presented. The project, released under the title "If You Live in a City, Where Do You Live?", seeks to link the value systems represented by the predominantly rural American conservation ethic with the plight and…

This volume is a collection of papers by participants in the 1970 Annual Meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education. The presentations are an amplification of the substantive material on Metropolitan America presented at the Detroit meeting by lecturers and field trip leaders and include newly developed teaching materials on the…

The Powell River Project proposes in this progress report to design a curriculum with the Canadian urban environment as a major focus promoting cognitive and affective learnings that are verifiably appropriate using a team of primary teachers as designers. Activities and experiences will be selected which lead the child to learn his role in…

The broad area selected by the Calgary Project was the development of a curriculum on urban aesthetics. During their work in 1970-71, they concluded that the best way to develop visual awareness was through the conceptual development of the visual components or the images and elements of design in terms of human values of urban areas. The modular…

This curriculum unit for Grades 3-4 (adaptable for higher or lower grades) introduces students to Harlem, starting with black migration from Africa and from the American South to the North, to the Harlem Renaissance (including jazz musicians, visual artists, writers, and poets), and on to aspects of daily Harlem life (then and now), such as family…