Skills useful in advocacy of senior citizens' needs are discussed in this manual. The topics included are: (1) the meaning of advocacy; (2) assertiveness training for aging-action; (3) identifying issues; (4) choosing issues; (5) developing a plan of action; (6) organizing; (7) legislative advocacy; (8) criteria to evaluate potential legislative…

Short essays dealing with concerns of a variety of persons involved in various media uses. (HB)

The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the differences between the women's rights movements of the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States, focusing upon origins, issues, problems, attempted solutions, and outcomes pertaining to white and black women. The study attempted to predict benefits black women could expect from the current…

William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, presents in this paper the Alfred M. Landon Memorial Lecture at Kansas State University, April 12, 1972. Restoring man to a harmony with nature and his environment and insuring a clean and livable home for the posterity of all mankind are the goals we must strive for.…

This article assesses the importance of the so-called protest movement in science by reference to certain classic problems of ideology and the sociology of knowledge. For journal availability see SO 504 516. (Author/RM)

Comments on the reform of vocational education in the context of the changing relationship between jobs and schooling, a change brought about by the emergence of the high school as a mass institution. (Author/AM)

This paper investigates the process of how actions of community groups are initiated and carried out. It also identifies key characteristics of participation in community action projects. Social actions in two communities in North Carolina are studied from a 10-year period. (Author/CT)

Discusses the relationship of Michel Foucault's work to the human perspective. Argues that Fisher is inaccurate in characterizing Foucault as an "anti-humanist." Claims that Foucault's concept of the "statement" and his method of critique turn the humanist perspective toward a liberating, activist form that allows for change…

This is the first of two articles about aspects of the correctional education (CE) professional identity issue. This article addresses the meaning of the CE/prison reform link, and discusses the lives of two 19th-century CE/prison reform heroes: Alexander Maconochie and Zebulon Brockway. (CT)

Four components of comprehensive Hispanic group service are identified: assessment of the Hispanic community; a balanced program of groups that address social goals and groups that are reciprocal and remedial; knowledge of cultural and process issues; and the role of the Hispanic collaborative of community workers in effecting policy. (Author/BL)

In the early 1900s adults found the theatre unsatisfactory entertainment for children. In the name of children's rights, children were forced out of the audience and off the stage of New York's professional theatres. (PD)

Despite large-scale public opposition to civilian nuclear power in the United States and France, only in the former country has the opposition been successful in halting further commercialization of this energy technology. A major reason is that France's political structure provides relatively few access points for the expression of opposition.…

Learn how to become an effective champion for important education issues. This resource provides an in-depth look at the role of education advocates, a wide range of advocacy strategies, and real-life stories to inspire your efforts. The reader will find many tools to motivate and inform activities, such as reflection questions, an advocacy…

The ultimate goal of a liberation curriculum is to make black students intelligent political activists so that they will know how to achieve and maintain power. (Author)