In the business of development, breakthroughs require international communication to help spread potential benefits widely. Obstacles demand international commitment to marshal vision, resources, and effort sufficient to the challenge. This issue of "Cooperation South" contains a two part focus, conveying innovations in development…

The role of researchers in the struggle for social justice was explored, focusing on some of the dilemmas faced by researchers doing solidarity work. Solidarity work is negotiating ways to combine different interests to make research findings useful and relevant to political aims. People doing solidarity work describe themselves as activity…

Research predicts that 21st century society will be very different from 20th century society. What is good conduct in the 21st century? Good conduct is advantageous to work, job, and career. Students who learn good conduct now will benefit in their school lives and in future careers. This handbook aims to prepare everyone's personal conduct for…

On October 7-8, 1996, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund joined with the World Bank to host a gathering of foundation executives, leaders of major humanitarian and environmental nongovernmental organizations, and officers of large multilateral institutions. The meeting was entitled "Building a Constituency for Global Interdependence," and its…

This book convincingly shows that the United States should adopt multiculturalism so that it doesn't become monoculturally provincial in a global society, and so that it can survive in the twentieth century as a democratizing force rather than a future Bosnia. The book is divided into two sections: (1) "Theories and Issues in…

Intended to help teachers make the move from traditional textbooks to a more issue-centered, interdisciplinary social studies curriculum, this collection of essays comes from teachers who describe how to focus on teaching for and toward justice, with critical pedagogy as an underlying theme. The teachers' stories in this collection show the…

Discusses the problem faced by underdeveloped countries of making the right choices about the application of science and technology. The main issues facing Latin American countries center on how much research they should undertake, how much technology they should innovate and adopt, and how much they should continue to import. (Author/JR)

This article centers around the relationship of counselors to the social order and political system of this country. The author questions the basic premise that social alienation is a natural outcome of the American system. A response by Harold J. Adams follows. (Author)

To help students increase their knowledge and understanding of the plight of the migrant, suggested teaching strategies and materials for considering migrants in the social studies are provided. (SM)

The concept that joint family households will prove a barrier to the emergence of conjugal role patterns was tested for a sample in Dharwar, India. It was found that living with close kin was not highly correlated with a major increase in husband and wife avoiding one another. Urbanization and education, however, both seem to lead to changes in…

Acculturation has been an aim of federal Indian policies for at least two hundred years. This article gives reasons for its failure and recommends that it be abandoned or redefined. (Author)

Subtle racism is discovered in some frequently used terms and concepts. (Author)

Teachers are advised to attempt to understand all the things that could be going on behind that blank face at the back of the room--to learn from what the street people say and what they do not say. (JB)

Results indicate that group participants in a consciousness raising session generally move through a process of creating a new identity, seeing themselves as pitted against the establishment; denying establishment values for new ones; and supporting liberation efforts of unrecognized groups. (RN)