The steps to building a community playground are discussed. These steps include planning, materials and services needed, and the involvement of parents, teachers, and administrators as well as the children themselves. Pictures illustrate the text. (DB)

This search of the ERIC system, the Dissertation Abstracts, and the journal literature offers abstracts of 28 documents dealing with ways in which the profession can involve the community, thereby creating a more favorable counselor image on the part of the public. (CJ)

This is a summary of a conference that sought to define current issues relating to jobs and the environment in order to develop specific ways for unions, environmental groups, and other community organizations to work together for environmental quality and economic justice. The conference was intended to share information, develop skills, develop…

This chapter in "The Best of the Best of ERIC" contains 14 annotations of documents and journal articles on advisory committees, all of which are indexed in the ERIC system. Materials on student and community involvement, planning and utilization of advisory committees, and other topics are annotated. (DS)

School districts with experience in school closing emphasize the need for long-range planning and community involvement. (IRT)

Five stages are suggested as guidelines: legal knowledge, planning, written board policy, applications, and written priority-use policy. (DS)

The creation of a leisure atmosphere within a broader interpretation of art can only occur when artists and recreation personnel join forces to work with some understanding of the value of the art experience and the methods by which art expressions may be encouraged at the community level of involvement. (DS)

Arkansas, 50th of the states in education according to most national standards, is moving community education from a program to a process to accommodate change. (Author/MLF)

Recreational programs in New Hampshire that are fiscally conservative and rely heavily upon citizen cooperation and ingenuity are described. (JD)

Synergizing the community means the process of complete utilization of the potential human and material energy in the community for the common good. Community education provides evidence for the premises of synergistics. (Author/IRT)

Integration into a society made for and by men, in which all his activities are meaningful, is animation's ultimate goal. "Animation", the title of the Council for Cultural Cooperation's socio-cultural development project, is described along with the policy necessary to implement it. This includes the role of the animateur, who would…

Description of a career awareness program which interfaces with a junior high school English curriculum. (STS)