Suggests eight criteria for developing instructional materials and approaches to political education in elementary schools. These criteria include enabling children to see political influences in their daily lives, reflecting the diversity which is characteristic of American society, and reflecting the fact that children are becoming citizens of a…

The school as a political entity is described as a center of power relations between persons in authority and persons under authority. The process of education for independent thinking is seen to continually initiate alienation from existing authority and tradition. (AV)

Examines education and manual work in Tanzania in terms of the nation's political philosophy. Structural changes in the school system and problems of implementation are discussed. (AV)

Since the Chinese proletarian cultural revolution in 1966, rural and urban schools have combined classroom study with productive labor. Students at all grade levels participate in the new system, which is designed to reduce differences between town and country, worker and peasant, and mental and manual labor. (Author/AV)

Provides a case study of the evolution of the Paracollege, a major curriculum change at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. The paracollege is a small experimental unit in which innovation in education and new patterns of both learning and teaching are tested. (Author/RK)

Begins by briefly and broadly describing the present world and specifying some of the difficulties involved when an individual attempts to understand and relate to it. Argues that, given today's complex world, the development of an adequate set of integrative assumptions requires a general education program that liberally utilizes anthropological…

Asserts that Wright's importance emerges out of his literary identification with a specific sociological vision of the life and destiny of black people in particular and human kind in general. Examines this vision interpretatively as a philosophy, as a historical trend in American culture, and as a personal and ideological commitment forming the…

Proposes new economic and political philosophies to turn the college-graduate surplus into a trained manpower shortage and calls for a new partnership in policy making between educators, employers, and the community at large for interrelating education and work. (JT)

Now is the time to reassess the functions of education and to accept a realistic picture of the actual contribution of schooling to young people and to our national life. (MM)

The author identifies four main sources of moral relativism; defines cultural and ethical relativism, and social and personal moral relativism; and presents three arguments to refute moral relativism. (AV)

Interprets Chairman Mao's call to "send the broad masses of cadres to do manual labor" in terms of the administration of cadre training schools. (AV)

Kohlberg's theory of moral development is restated in less technical terms, with emphasis on the concepts of: (1) moral judgment, rather than behavior, values, or feelings; (2) "stages," describing consistencies in moral reasoning procedures; and (3) "better" stages, measuring structurally more adequate levels. (MJB)

The work ethic and the success of a system based increasingly upon consumerism has created an image of man in which the quality of life is measured in terms of quantity and ownership of goods; in ethics and attitude, our system of education is creating an ideally receptive population for the producer-consumer society. (JD)

In the years ahead, along with other social institutions, education will have to reformulate its world view to accommodate newer theories, starting with redefinition of the language categories by which it defines reality. (JD)

A model educational system is outlined that would modify the present inclination to stereotype learning priorities so that the intuitive, imaginative, and aesthetic impulses of the individual are recognized as valid elements in the learning process. (JD)