GRADES OR AGES: Grade 12. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; world social problems; ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The major portion of the guide is divided into five subunits of parallel format. All sections are in list form. The guide is mimeographed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: Several general objectives…

This book is a collection of essays on mastery learning, which is defined as an instructional philosophy that asserts that under appropriate instructional conditions virtually all, rather than some, students can learn most of what they are taught. The articles in this book are based on a symposium. Social scientists were contacted and asked to…

Since conflict may concern goals, roles, or individuals, it is endemic to the decision making process and is particularly evident at the stage of formulating and weighing alternatives. The entire social system of the school may be drawn into or affected by the conflict. If these patterns are free to run their course, the school could quickly enter…

The objective of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Change in the Four-Year College was to provide a setting where college administrators, faculty members, and graduate students could come to study the possibilities for change in their institutions. The focus of the Institute was to develop knowledge on the part of the participants, that is,…

This paper discusses the educational orientations and concerns of African intellectuals in U.S. institutions of higher education, and assesses the relationship of such orientations to the perceptions of problems and processes of social change in African countries. Information was obtained from all students from Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria…

Radical extremists on the left and right are allied in a concerted attack on higher education, blaming the campuses for the unrest. Though the public on the whole has rejected the extreme charges, many have been persuaded that campus reforms would lessen or eliminate the disorders that have swept higher education. Hundreds of studies of student…

This report covers 5 regional seminars designed to increase the Veterans Administration understanding of Vietnam Era veterans. The process used was one of involvement and interaction of Veterans Administration officials with returning Vietnam Era veterans and other young people. After the traditional introductions and keynote remarks, there was a…

The Social Sciences, as they relate to the aged and the aging, are discussed. Social gerontology seeks to discover the role of the social environment as a determinant of aging and of the behavior and position of older people in society. In the United States, some 20 million people are over 65 years of age, and the median age of the elderly has…

Adolescent pregnancy is examined from 2 viewpoints: (1) the marital status of young adolescent girls who become mothers at a too young age is less relevant to the social problem of adolescent pregnancy than the attendant adverse effects, i.e., adolescent pregnancy, per se, rather than illegitimacy is the social problem; and (2) too early marriage…

One of the projects selected for the University Urban Interface Program at the University of Pittsburgh was that of studying and implementing some long-range goals for the city of Pittsburgh. Of the goals set up, reforms in the criminal justice system are seen as very desirable. Indeed, leaders in government and law in the black community programs…

A striking contrast between the novels of the French and English speaking Caribbean is the positive outlook of the French and the pessimistic outlook of the English. Two novels that reflect these two starkly opposed visions are studied here. (Author/AM)

Discusses the need to include social and ethical issues in engineering curricula, such as information about the potential benefits or detrimental consequences of proposed new technologies. (MLH)

Examines the common threads of creation myths; points out that both children and adults need true myth to help them confront actual and potential holocausts and the false myths that inspire them. (GT)

Almost every instance of tension between the realm of the ideal and the world of reality fosters difficulties for academic freedom. Considers a number of factors that are obstacles to preserving academic freedom. (Author/RK)

This paper explores the roots of the war on poverty by focusing on factors such as the rise of the empowerment issue, delinquency, and changes among black and white youth. It is suggested that the war on poverty had unintended consequences that have kept the empowerment issue and other important issues alive. (Author/AM)