This book is for geography and social studies teachers who wish to impart to their students a realistic appreciation of Africa and Africans. It is divided into four parts. The first comprises eleven essays, by African and some foreign scholars, that provide a conspectus of current issues and preoccupations in Africa today. Topics include the…

In his presentation at the start of the seminar, the author argues that the total commitment of civil rights groups to school integration as the sole means for enabling black children to obtain the "equal educational opportunity" guaranteed them by the Supreme Court is not only obsolete policy, but reflects a wasteful, dangerous and demeaning…

The purposes of this study were to determine: (1) if differences existed in the self-concept among Negro, Anglo, and Spanish American students; and (2) the extent to which these differences were influenced by ethnic group membership, socioeconomic position, sex, or the interaction among these variables. This study was carried out in a New Mexico…

This bibliography is an annual supplement to the first bibliography on human relations in the classroom (ED 051 315), including documents announced in the 1973 issues of "Research in Education" and journal articles cited in the 1973 issues of "Current Index to Journals in Education," and contains references to published books, documents, journal…

The purpose of this practicum was to plan and implement a comprehensive development program for the staff, parents, and community at an inner city elementary school serving a disadvantaged, segregated student population. The program included a variety of activities, workshops, group efforts, and meetings that encourage the participation of all…

This book, a major purpose of which is to attempt to identify how different kinds of youth will be reacting to different aspects of the social system in the years ahead, includes 15 essays: "Black Brainpower: Characteristics of Bright Black Youth," D.J. Watley; "Bright Achievers: Their Characteristics and Some Expected Behavior Patterns," D.J.…

Inner city children have suffered indiscriminately from strict, illogical scoring of standardized IQ tests which do not credit children with thoughtful responses accurately reflecting their experiences and backgrounds. As a result, IQ scores too often doom these children to learning situations for children of lower mentality levels than their own.…

The purpose of the present study is to examine the relative importance of sex and race preference as a basis for the choice of playmates and working companions in integrated elementary school classrooms. Subjects were 242 third-grade children from 11 randomly chosen classrooms. Twenty-one per cent of the children were black. A roster-and-rating…

Different program design concepts which are needed for the preparation of school superintendents in the 1970s are suggested in this study. Two approaches were used, one involving an analysis of forces judged to have had an important impact on education in the 1960s, and the other based on the perceptions of superintendents and professors about…

The hypothesis of this study was that scholastic achievement of the low achieving student has positive correlations with his ability to identify with his teacher. Two hundred and sixty-five eighth grade students, 40 percent black, viewed and heard one of two versions of a tape-slide presentation, one with a black narrator teacher and one with a…

We need to find out the extent to which individual differences, social class differences and race differences in rates of cognitive development, and differential patterns of relative strength and weakness are attributable to genetically conditioned biological growth factors. The answers to this question might imply differences in our approach to…

The study involved two stages: first, the evaluation of various stimuli as positive or negative; and second, the determination of whether or not positive stimuli were associated with the color white, and negative stimuli with black. The stimuli were statements related to self perception. From four integrated preschools were randomly selected 15…

This study investigates the development of multiplicative classification skills in lower class black and middle class white children on tasks which contain either three-dimensional objects or two-dimensional pictorial representations of the same objects. Multiplicative classification refers to the simultaneous classification of objects into two or…

This report of the third year of a Head Start study indicates the diverse range of information gathered on two types of programs (Philadelphia's inner city and Appalachian follow-up) in which the Child Development Research and Evaluation Center at Temple University participated. Subjects in the Philadelphia sample were 158 Negro children equally…

Characteristics of heads of 1,249 poor families in rural areas of the Mississippi Delta region who had high potential for breaking out of poverty were determined in this study. Potential for moving out of poverty was measured by degree of expressed willingness of a household head to take action for positive change in his circumstances. Such…