Undergraduate colleges are confronted with a growing number of prelaw students as well as those not seeking careers as lawyers who are concerned about issues such as civil rights, right to privacy, consumer protection, and environmental protection--all of which involve law. Suggestions for dealing with the undergraduate curriculum are made. (LBH)

Suggests that social workers who fight for the interests of the people they claim as their clients, wage a struggle against the institutions of the capitalist state. (Author/AM)

Concludes that the struggles waged by black students point out that the anti racist struggle is dialectically bound to the general class struggle and helps push it forward along the revolutionary path. (Author/AM)

Discusses areas of revision on the 1996 British Government's Draft Adoption Bill: aspects of the welfare principles; criteria for dispensing with parental consent; orders for stepparents; and the use of residence orders as an alternative to adoption. Concludes that resolving those issues would be an important step toward meeting the diverse needs…

Portrays interprofessional collaborations and integrated service systems as promising reform efforts in counseling psychology. Describes the history and commitments of counseling psychology, the need to forge new roles, such as becoming more involved with children, and new collaborations with other professionals. Describes interprofessional…

Describes a high school commercial art program for gifted students that focuses on "real-life causes" and enables the students to make connections with their own feelings and creativity, with learning resources and experiences, and with the community and the world beyond. Different students' experiences are detailed. (CR)

Relates how one middle school teacher's small, private step against gang violence inspired her students to organize their own anti-violence activity (painting over gang graffiti), which in turn caused ripples into the community, the school district, and city hall. (SR)

States that three new developments related to the Internet can assist teachers in encouraging students to participate in democracy throughout their lives: (1) online voting and advocacy; (2) online political information; and (3) online civic activism. Provides two activities that use resources from Speakout.com. (CMK)

The case of Mary Ellen, whose maltreatment as a child began the organized response to child abuse in the United States, is reviewed. The paper emphasizes Mary Ellen's rescue from her stepmother, her life after intervention, and her meaningful and productive life as a wife and mother. (JDD)

Presents a historical and international overview of student political movements. Discusses the sporadic nature of student activism, effects of mass media attention and government response, characteristics of activist leaders and participants, and the cultural and educational impact of student protest in Third World and industrialized countries.…

A British university-union project developed courses for union members that examined changes affecting industry, the work force, and social, political, and economic systems,as well as the role of unions in response. In contrast to labor education as role training, developers perceived the course as cadre education, intended to produce informed…

Examines three groups of studies that demonstrate what communication research has to say about the relationship between peace and news, between war and the media. Presents a model of five discourses used in the coverage of war and peace in the news media. (MS)

A more effective partnership for the advocacy of integrated educational options can be formed when parents and professionals work in concert. Eleven strategies for securing integrated options are offered, including working with the media, working within other advocacy organizations, influencing others in the school system, and consulting with…

The Nuclear Disarmament Project involving Catholic churches and schools in San Francisco used Freirean codifications, with photographs as codes, to develop discussions on the moral issues of nuclear arms. Group discussions led to concrete action in the cause of peace and social justice. (SK)

Examines early years of vocational guidance (1910-1930), noting that movement was not successful in advancing societal reform in area of women's occupational choice. Discusses social and occupational structure of the time, societal attitudes, and vocational guidance approaches used as conditions which contributed to early vocational counselors'…