Certain fundamental perspectives on social issues have become conventions in the way society is represented in school curricula, distorting the kind of social understanding needed by young people. Among these distorting conventions are functionalism, determinism, and individualism. These approaches to social education are analyzed; alternative…

The immediate future of human services and information technology is examined. Changes in professional training will incorporate high skill levels in the use and application of information technology, while changes in the problems people experience are addressed in four areas: intellect intensive society; human services; sex bias technology; and…

Hyperintelligence--a dramatic extension of the power of the brain--will be made possible by global computer networks. Hyperintelligence will help to create a new and better global society. Other consequences of computer networks are also discussed. (RM)

Reviews the medical and social risks of teenage pregnancy and describes two successful programs dealing with pregnancy and parenting: the St. Paul Maternal and Infant Care Project in Minnesota and the Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Project in San Francisco. (SK)

Defends Blume's works by presenting internal evidence displaying the honesty and lack of exaggeration that make her books popular with adolescents and unpopular with critics. (CRH)

Describes a series of lectures that deplore the current state of English instruction in England under Prime Minister Thatcher. (CRH)

Details how England is reworking its secondary school examination system, replacing the GCE and the CSE with one examination system. (CRH)

Covers the activities of the Social Impact Junto at the National Adult Education Conference (November 1984), which considered several questions related to (1) adult education's contributions to societal change, (2) social implications of its content, (3) investigating and resolving problems of mutual concern, and (4) the public's apathy toward a…

Analyzes the environmental content of a number of general and specialized magazines for the period 1966-1975. (FL)

This article, the sixth installment in Environment's "Looking Back" series, traces the woes of America's industrialized cities to the movement that developed cities primarily as centers for industrial enterprise rather than as places for people to live. Today's social ills, from pollution to poverty, developed from that movement. (BT)

A discussion of both theory and practice of social work points out two problems: (1) social service departments are seen as a residual service and (2) public anxiety exists about nonaccidental injury to children. (ND)

Describes the composition of the migrant worker population in the countries of Western Europe and traces developments in government policies regarding control and stabilization of immigration, provision for education and granting of political rights. (Editor)

Author noted several very important nonepistemological factors which seemed to be particularly relevant to the success or failure of interdisciplinary inquiry, considered the epistemological and methodological constraints on interdisciplinary work, and expanded on the notion of interpretive knowledge as a universally necessary condition for…

Describes an organic chemistry course that emphasizes the practical significance of organic chemistry in our culture, and the historical development of organic chemistry as related to economic and political events. (MLH)