This paper describes current European multicultural societies, and explores the social problems experienced in education and the related issues in employment, community life, social welfare, and human rights. (Author/MT)

College students identified air quality, world hunger, and war technology as the most important of 12 global problems (presented to them during a survey) and indicated that problems will become worse by the year 2000. Implications of findings for curriculum and instruction are addressed. (JN)

Discusses the three "hurdles" that a new female manager must "jump" to be accepted as a colleague by her male peers: trust, dependence, and social role. The authors list a series of tips to help women over these hurdles. (CT)

Discusses conceptual obstacles to working effectively with cases of sexual abuse of children. Urges professionals to view sexual abuse in a larger context in which cultural values, social and political ideals, and economic conditions are seen as linked to the problem. (Author/LLL)

Explains why political concerns and actions have been neglected by authors of young adult novels while other subjects, once considered taboo, have been used.(EL)

Discusses issues and problems related to the enhanced capability in science and technology. Areas addressed include opportunities and complications resulting from this capability, global interdependence, commitment to science education, and ways to foster cooperation between colleges and schools. (JN)

Current trends in educational policy analysis are criticized for vagueness of conceptualization, inattention to values and ethical issues, the narrow role of the policy analyst, the dominance of functionalists, systems theory perspectives, absence of educational terms of reference, and the failure of policy analysis to ameliorate socio-educational…

Responds to both Kate Water's May l985 article, "Members of the Last Generation" and to a response to it written by Bryna J. Fireside in the January l986 issue, both dealing with whether authors of adolescent literature have a moral obligation to address the issue of nuclear war. (EL)

Discusses teaching approaches which incorporate science/technology/society issues in elementary and secondary school science curriculum, including short topics, discrete units, elective courses, full-fledged science/technology/society curricula, and interdisciplinary courses taught by several teachers in different fields. Ways to persuade teachers…

Describes Lenski's work as a reflection of artistic and social conventions of another era, then examines why they are still popular. (CRH)

Examines the portrayals of women in selected pieces of modern dramatic literature. (EL)

With the government working party report on the subject well overdue this article challenges some of the conventional attitudes of the agencies which aim to help the young single homeless. (Editor/RK)

This essay provides an assessment of the plights of economics, loneliness, mortality and isolationism confronting aggregated older black women as they age in the United States. The most exacerbated plights relate to those of insufficient monies and insufficient men. (Author/AM)

Illustrates how some bureaucratic elements are being strengthened at the expense of participation in organizational decisions by examining several sectors of British administration--industry, local and central government, development planning, and the health service. (Available from Plenum Publishing Corporation, 227 West 17 Street, New York, New…

This review briefly covers the study of attitudes toward aging in general. Research on attitudes of young people toward the old, their contact with the old, efforts to change their attitudes toward the aged, and implications for counseling young people with a view toward their own aging are presented. (Author)