This comprehensive, annotated subject bibliography lists books and U.S. government documents on all aspects of Negro life, history, and culture in America, Africa, and the world which were part of the University of Toledo Library in May of 1969. The bibliography is organized into five main parts: (1) the Negro in the United States, (2) the Negro…

Based on the premise that ecological and health problems, and human responses to these problems, are directly related to community social and economic conditions, this study examined differences in health, housing, and human concerns across socioeconomically defined neighborhoods in West Virginia. Counties were grouped into three environmental…

This manual is designed to help the non-specialist cope with the existing body of material on Afro-American studies and establish guidelines for evaluating new resources as they appear. No attempt is made to recommend teaching methods or activities, but the author urges supplementation of elementary and secondary social studies courses and…

This study reviews the characteristics and service activities of all clients of the St. Augustine's Center for American Indians in Chicago in 1968 and compares them with the clients of 1967. This center focused its attention upon intensive counseling, emergency assistance, and referrals of Indian American in Chicago, or other urban settings. Data…

This study proposed to create a value-oriented unit of short, fast-moving fiction, poetry, and discussion lessons for and about contemporary young people, and then to measure their appraisal of this unit. Subjects were 303 students from one suburban and two urban high schools (one all Negro, one all white, and one evenly integrated). Information…

The major stimulus of the community school movement is a general dissatisfaction with the existing public education system, the greatest thrust having come from the minority groups. The two major difficulties appear to be the creation of independent schools or districts under local community control, and the development of adequate funding…

"The broader perspective gained from examining educational systems of other countries has long been important and is especially so at the present time. France is of particular interest because of its strong educational traditions and its dedication to democratic principles. In the process of gathering information for this study, the author…

This study examines, by adaptation of the Likert-type scale, the attitudes of a random sample of Bayfield citizens toward a new national park comprising 20 of the Apostle Islands and 42,000 acres of Lake Superior shoreline in northern Wisconsin, and its possible impact on the community. With the use of correlation analysis and regression…

This bilingual directory of research (1963-68) in the development of adult human resources in Canada indicates types of projects undertaken, principal objectives, institutions involved, amounts and sources of funding. It also shows which areas of research have been well covered, those with little or no coverage, and those which might be given a…

The Anthropology Curriculum Study Project (ACSP) has developed a research model which is to be used to provide data for effective implementation of the ACSP course, "Patterns in Human History". The common "means-ends" model for research, which relies on one-way effects, is described and rejected in favor of an interactive,…

This study estimates a model of the schools reflecting what is known of the educational process. The model proposed represents the variables of achievement, students' sense of efficacy, motivation, and parents' attitudes as completely interdependent. Thus, the latter three variables are of interest because not only do they affect achievement…

Focusing on broad social and cultural influences on organizational behavior within the Thailand Ministry of Education, this study examined the response of the Division of Adult Education to political and administrative changes imposed on its goals and purposes of the national literacy effort by the gradual strengthening of its planning system. For…

The objectives of this report are to determine whether there is a need to establish a statewide policy of early education in Ohio, to define what priorities are implied by such a need, and to suggest relevant recommendations for the establishment of a policy, if needed. Sixteen chapters (nine-tenths) of this report present information from…

The third volume of this 4-volume report contains the last two speeches, on educational philosophy and the role of reason in society, from the Colloquium on the Culture of Schools held at the New School for Social Research (preceding speeches are in Vol. II, SP 003 901), reports on conferences on the culture of schools held in Pittsburgh and…

As in other units in this series, this teaching guide is structured on the basis of one major generalization, supporting generalizations, and suggestions of learning activities and materials leading to an understanding of these ideas. For Grade 3, the major generalization is, "Skin color is only one of many obvious physical differences among…