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Jordan, Samuel, Jr. – 1987
This presentation reviews and discusses literature on the following problems affecting blacks in America today: (1) housing; (2) education; (3) economics; (4) civil rights; (5) drugs; and (6) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). An attempt is made to focus on race relations as a major factor in the majority of the problems discussed. In…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black History, Civil Rights, Economic Factors
Download full textThurston, Linda P.; Greenwood, Charles R. – 1981
Survival Skills for Urban Women is a series of 10 3-hour workshops designed for low-income minority women. The workshops cover the following topics: (1) assertiveness; (2) personal health; (3) nutrition; (4) money management; (5) child management; (6) legal rights; (7) self-advocacy; (8) crisis coping; (9) community resources; and (10) re-entry to…
Descriptors: Coping, Daily Living Skills, Economically Disadvantaged, Females
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. Office of International Affairs. – 1980
Documents cited in this annotated bibliography focus on the often neglected problems of children in the "built environment": at home, at play, at school, and in the community. Twenty entries are from foreign countries; 74 are from the United States. It is hoped that these references will be useful to all who are interested in problems…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Characteristics, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Moore, John W. – 1977
This essay offers several propositions related to the problems of urban areas and notes the implications of these problems for urban universities and their colleges of education. The quality of life in urban America is deteriorating as is the quality of service being provided by urban schools and social service agencies. A large portion of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Schools of Education, Teacher Educators, Urban Areas
Lennon, John J. – 1976
This examines the existing state of acculturation of Puerto Rican migrants living in Chicago and the extent to which religion affects their acculturation. Six variables (age, prior urban or rural residence, sex, recency of migration, religion, and religiousness) and the relationship of these variables to acculturation are investigated. The sample…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Biculturalism, Catholics, Cultural Pluralism
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. – 1977
This committee print starts with a pessimistic description of the decay of the economic functions traditionally associated with urban areas. Chapters by educators and public figures in the field focus on different problems of the urban crisis. That federal grants to cities, even when targeted to specific objectives, do not necessarily solve the…
Descriptors: Government Publications, Government Role, Low Income Groups, Metropolitan Areas
Stone, Sonja H. – Soc Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Dance, Federal Aid, Ghettos, Graduate Study
Baumann, Duane D.; Dworkin, Daniel – 1978
This paper argues that a re-examination of current goals and methodologies and modifications to management practices are necessary if urban water crises are to be minimized. Three problem areas are focused on: (1) the projection of demand and the estimation of supply; (2) the alternatives for balancing demand and supply; and (3) the management of…
Descriptors: Ecological Factors, Ecology, Environmental Education, Majority Attitudes
Cornbleth, Catherine; McGrail, John C. – 1979
This is the master descriptive document and teacher's guide for a series of urban environmental education models. The series is intended for grades 6-9 but may be modified for older or younger children. Each module addresses a specific aspect of urban environmental quality of life. The modules are interdisciplinary but draw primarily on natural…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Environment, Environmental Education
PDF pending restorationNous, Albert P.; Biglan, Barbara – 1979
Included in this module are four activities dealing with ecology and applications of ecological principles in the urban environment. Activities included are: (1) the study of ecology; (2) study of consequences of activities within an ecosystem; (3) environmental impacts--benefits and detriments; and (4) choices for the future. Also included are an…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Decision Making, Ecology, Environment
PDF pending restorationGriffin, Robert M., Jr.; And Others – 1979
In the conceptual scheme for this research study, urban environments were viewed as related to personal well-being by control-seeking and support-seeking behaviors and the psychological consequences of obtaining these goals. Measures of predispositions to these behaviors were found to be related to observed behavior variables. Predispositions to…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Family Environment, Health, Locus of Control
Fielder, Erica; Shaffer, Carolyn – 1976
This scrapbook provides junior high school teachers with tested activities and ideas that bring ecology to urban students without going far away (just around the block), without taking long hours to prepare, and without spending precious budget money. Awareness of the richly varied, pleasant and not-so-pleasant sights, sounds, and textures of the…
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning, Field Trips
Mackenzie, Suzanne; Seymour, Lee – 1976
This paper examines how selected aspects of contemporary urban environment influence the form and function of the family and the position of women within the family and within society. The study was undertaken within the framework of Marxian analysis and with a specific focus on how advanced industrial capitalism perpetuates the family in its…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Family Role, Females, History
Walshok, Mary Lindenstein; Walshok, Marco Gary – 1978
Data from in-depth interviews with more than one hundred women over a three-year period suggest that the experience of women in skilled and semiskilled jobs contradicts the conventional wisdom about the values and motives of these women and challenge many sociological findings regarding the alienating character of much blue collar work. The women…
Descriptors: Adults, Blue Collar Occupations, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes
HESS, ROBERT D.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS MANUAL DESCRIBES MEASURES USED IN "THE COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENTS OF URBAN PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN" PROJECT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. THE SAMPLE FOR THE STUDY CONSISTED OF 163 NEGRO MOTHER-CHILD PAIRS SELECTED FROM 3 SOCIOECONOMIC CLASSES BASED ON THE FATHER'S OCCUPATION AND THE PARENTS' EDUCATION. A FOURTH GROUP INCLUDED FATHER-ABSENT…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Black Mothers, Cognitive Development, Educational Attitudes
