Designed as a resource for teachers, this booklet, written in Spanish, contains brief information on seven May events: La Semana de la Educacion (first Friday in May), Harry S. Truman (May 8), Dia de las Madres (second Sunday in May), Luis Llorens Torres (May 14), La Cruz Roja (May 21), John F. Kennedy (May 29), and El Dia De Conmemoracion (May…

Designed as a resource for teachers, the booklet contains brief information on eight events celebrated by Puerto Ricans in the month of February: La Candelaria; Abraham Lincoln; Black History; Valentine's Day; Julia de Burgos; Luis Munoz Marin; George Washington; and the Carnaval. Written in Spanish, the booklet discusses the orgin and ways of…

Alternatives to traditional views about leadership suggest a dramatically different approach, including focusing on problems rather than individuals, examining leadership positions at critical organizational junctures, and emphasizing environmental and organizational forces that constrain leader behavior. Human resource professionals responding to…

A study was undertaken to explore the power structure in a Southwestern community of 93,000 and to determine which elements in that power structure had the most influence in a local school bond referendum. The data for the study were collected using two techniques. First, a panel of knowledgeable community members identified 85 politically…

Because over 40,000 children are annually poisoned by household products, this guide for group leaders emphasizes hazards and preventive actions. Major objectives are defined: (1) to raise the audience's knowledge/awareness level concerning major hazards associated with potentially poisonous household products, (2) to point out primary hazard…

In order to effectively bring about permanent changes in a school setting, the educators involved must accept the changes privately as well as complying with them publicly. The staff development specialist must convince the educators that positive change is both necessary and possible and provide support during the implementation period. As used…

Although the institutional structure of destination communities may remain unchanged by migration, the socioeconomic structure may be directly affected. Data from a statewide survey in Florida indicate that interstate migrants (who have lived in Florida less than 5 years), intrastate migrants (who have lived in Florida more than 5 years but in the…

THE STUDY TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THERE IS SOME DEVIATION BETWEEN MOTIVATIONS FOR ACCEPTANCE OF A LEADERSHIP ROLE AND THOSE THAT URGE THE SAME PERSON TO SELECT ANOTHER FOR A POSITION OF AUTHORITY. LEADERSHIP-ACCEPTANCE DRIVES MAY BE EXTERNAL (REWARDS AND PRESSURES) OR INTERNAL (SATISFACTIONS DERIVED FROM A LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE). SIX MAJOR…

TO DETERMINE THE FACTORS RELATED TO FIRST-YEAR 4-H LEADERS' CONTINUING IN OR DROPPING OUT OF 4-H WORK AND TO ANALYZE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG CHARACTERISTICS OF A SAMPLE OF FIRST-YEAR 4-H LEADERS AND THE EVALUATION BY THEIR 4-H AGENTS OF JOBS PERFORMED AND NOT PERFORMED, IN 1961 QUESTIONNAIRES AND PERSONALITY TESTS WERE GIVEN TO 527 FIRST-YEAR 4-H…

This unit for American Indian girls focuses upon exploring careers by using a variety of activities. Learning experiences suggested in the unit include field trips to get a social security card and a work permit. There are activities structured for involving young people in making a collage of careers and for making a job mobile. The girls have an…

The job of the 4-H extension agent involves fairly complex levels of performance. The curriculum for the extension agent program should produce youth workers who have the ability to perform competently and who possess the basic concepts and values required to function effectively. Performance objectives were written for each competency considered…

Tomo-chi-chi was a Creek Indian leader who did much to insure peaceful relations between the first English colonists in Georgia and the native Americans. His wisdom and dedication to peace were known and respected by the Creek people and the English colonists. He developed a lifelong friendship with General James Oglethorpe, the English founder of…

Perceptions of the 4-H club agent's role were studied from the viewpoint of club agents, county coworkers, supervisors, and officers of county leader's organizations. Data were obtained through personal or group interviews with 189 respondents. Forty job activities were classified into the four categories of (1) planning and evaluating club…

In a previous study by the investigator, it was determined that the lowest socioeconomic strata of pupils valued leadership significantly higher than did the upper socioeconomic group. This follow-up study attempted to determine whether pupils with similar connotations of leadership were more likely to be democratic leaders or autocratic leaders,…

Many informational resources with emphasis on town and country are listed in this annotated bibliography. Focus is upon understanding life in the small community. Materials are found under topics which include: (1) town and country case studies, (2) community theory, (3) rural sociology, (4) recent protestant town and country materials, (5)…