The article presents a brief glimpse at the changing scene in elementary school education; and, further, it takes a look at the challenges, styles, and activities that will face the educational leader of the future. (Author)

Analyzes characteristics and trends in children's literature from the Victorian age to the present. (RB)

Psychological benefits derived from gardening, a leisure activity intimately involved with the natural environment, are examined. Three areas of benefits (tangible outcomes, primary gardening experiences, and sustained interest) were identified and related to the kind of garden, attitudinal, and role variables. (BL)

New efforts in career education focus largely upon the idea of work, and its multiple and related forms, without indicating an awareness that sexist prejudices still pervade the entire curriculum and are subtly reflected in the attitudes of the school personnel. (Author/CB)

Interview with Miss Marcia Saunders, principal of Regina High School for girls in Hyattsville, Md., and Associate Member of NCEA's regional board for secondary education (Editor/CB)

Outlines standardized excuses offered by administrators resistant to change, and offers alternative solutions'' to counter the excuses. (SP)

Author discusses two kinds of communications--effective and good--and their applications for school administrators. (Editor)

The purdah system limits a woman's mobility outside her home. In the present paper, special emphasis is placed on the influence of purdah observance and values on women's participation in modern occupations. Medicine and teaching are found to be the most important high prestige occupations. (Author)

This paper discusses the role conflict faced by men who are nurses, in the context of a discussion of social science definitions of male female roles. (Author)

The course a scientist takes when he turns toward activism in an ecological crisis is described. Three models of motivation, steps toward implementing the action, and the role the scientist plays in his concern for nature and the conservation movement are enumerated. (BL)

Describes an innovative program of teacher education for inner-city school teachers which views the school as a unique social system and teaches teachers to understand how their roles relate to others in the school/community. (AN)

In the best feminist curriculum the consideration of race and class is interwoven with the analysis of sex stereotyping, and by the very nature of the subject, feminist courses are interdisciplinary, problem-oriented, and personal. (Authors/CB)