Many examples of adult education are variously related to participation, but the distribution is sporadic and spasmodic. Three needs must be met: (1) relevant administrative regulations and requirements; (2) knowledgeable tutors; and (3) differentiation between politics and education. (CT)

The authors question the adequacy of the traditional response by the educational community to the needs of the unemployed and the assumptions inherent in the type of courses provided. (CT)

In its role as a broker between the scientific community and the Congress, the Office of Technology Assessment evaluates the soundness of scientific conclusions for policy makers and ensures that research findings are included in formative policy analysis. (Author)

Attempts to discover how and why community development has been used in the past, and to formulate some ideas on prospects for community development in the future. (CT)

Argues that despite antipathy toward the Chinese manifested at state and urban levels, the Malay-Chinese relations at the village level in Kelantan, Malaysia, are better than corresponding relationships in the country's more developed states. Suggests both cultural and political reasons for the success of the Chinese group. (Author/GC)

This paper analyzes the concept of research in education and relates that analysis to the Scottish situation. Some of the areas of neglect are identified and explanations of a "political" kind are offered for the present unsatisfactory state of affairs. (Author/KC)

Science textbook publishers, engaged in their own struggle for survival, are catering to creationists. (Author/JM)

To meet the Nazi Party's need for speakers, Fritz Reinhardt began a correspondence course in public speaking in 1928 which trained about 6,000 speakers by 1933. This essay examines the techniques Reinhardt used and the contributions his instructions made to the development of the Nazi meetings and Hitler's takeover. (PD)

Examines the success of European reforms in institutions of higher education in terms of their goals, their integration with existing systems, the response of groups affected by the reforms, and the political and socioeconomic factors precipitating the reforms. (AM)

Catholic conservative influence on current American life is viewed from a historical perspective including their participation in major reform movements since the Civil War. Ethnic voting patterns as a reflection of the Catholic viewpoint are discussed in terms of their role in American politics. (PR)

Argues that changes in the form and frequency of preaching in England between 1534 and 1559 were as much the result of political and ecclesiastical struggles as they were of formal developments in rhetorical or homiletical theory. (JMF)

Profiles Kathleen Brown Rice (sister of California governor Jerry Brown) and her role on the Los Angeles city board of education. (IRT)

Questionnaires to determine political influence aspirations were distributed to 292 members of a rural Wisconsin high school junior class. Results indicated that a large proportion of these youth neither wished to nor believed that they could be politically influential at age 25 or even at age 45. (DS)

Data from a study of the impacts of the 1972 presidential campaign on voter behavior support previous contentions that higher reliance on mass media for political purposes is associated with more positive orientations toward the political system, but they contradict more recent evidence that greater television reliance evokes political…

Findings indicate that the traditional variables from the literature of political recruitment tend to be more supportive of men rather than women and that the ecological setting is important in determining the recruitment pattern of men and women politicians. (Author)