This document examines the need for health education and presents suggestions for implementing and/or improving health education programs. Chapter 1 states that the school has an obligation to emphasize positive health practices in cases where the home has been deficient in encouraging the child to practice sound health habits. This chapter also…

The proliferation of additional responsibilities in health, welfare, and recreation suggests the justification of the conceptualization of the elementary school as a total institution. This research was undertaken to investigate the application of Goffman's concept of total institution to the public elementary school. An exploratory field study…

In order to help develop curriculum for death education, this paper examines how elementary-age children learn about death. One hundred and twenty-five children responded to a survey which was designed to discover what children believe about death, how much personal contact they have with death, and which experiences or people have most influenced…

The authors attempt to indicate some of the background and consequences of the school reform movement. Hopefully, readers can learn what are currently the most important ideas that infuse the school scene with so much vitality. Toward that end, the authors have divided the report into "A History of Hollering," a minihistory of school criticism…

This paper offers some theoretical proposals for a radical re-thinking of educational theory. Rather than offering concrete methods for reform, it seeks to point out the general direction for change if education is to strive toward the liberation of man. The relationship of man to history, culture, and knowledge is considered, as is the role of…

This paper focuses on high-risk students and the challenge they present to the community college. The goals of the community college are analyzed and the problems encountered in reaching those goals are discussed. A summary of two workshops held in Chicago entitled "Long Range Results-Academic Supports for the Collegiate Black and Poor," and…

The purpose of the research done in 1970-71 in 9 secondary agricultural schools in Zaire was to generate a system for analyzing agricultural education. For this purpose, how the agricultural school relates to the 4 main currents in sociology--the sociology of organization, of education, of occupation, and of "rural animation"--is…

THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AGREED THAT THE BASIC LANGUAGE GOAL FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN SHOULD BE LITERACY IN STANDARD ENGLISH SO THAT THEY WILL BECOME EMPLOYABLE. THEY ALSO FELT THAT ATTENTION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO HOW LIMITED LANGUAGE USAGE CONSTRAINS THE CHILDREN'S INTELLECTUAL…

This book consists mainly of selected papers presented at the Southampton Summer Sequences, a series of four three-day meetings held in June and July 1975 to discuss the development of educational policies for all societal agencies engaged in the teaching and learning process. In addition to papers actually presented at the meetings, the book also…

We must recognize that, in the areas of law and politics, American citizens are basically uninformed, suspicious, and alienated. Educators should work in conjunction with legal authorities to provide experience-based law-focused education for all age groups. (Author/SJL)

The rapidly increasing number of foreign students in the U.S. has resulted in a myriad of problems for schools seeking students or those institutions faced with unprecedented numbers seeking admission who may be unaware of the responsibilities involved in admitting foreign students. (Author)

The teaching of moral values and sensitivity in the schools is discussed in this article. Some teaching techniques, resource materials, and New York State programs designed to develop values are described. (GC)

A survey of newspaper editors and journalism school deans and faculty members revealed that media criticism by journalism schools occurs infrequently and that both academic and media people have mixed reactions about its advisability. (GW)

Notes that the articles in this special issue examine the relationship between schools and a people's sense of nationality. The main question addressed is: What are the social consequences of using schools to displace primordial attachments and transform them into a sense of nationality? (Author/AM)

This analysis of Malaysian secondary schools indicates that the observed high levels of student alienation and distrust within the heterogeneous schools are due to a complex interaction effect between certain internal features and the way they are perceived to be linked to the adult occupational structure. (Author/AM)