The spirit of human rights and the desire for peace should be an integral part of the educational curriculum at all levels. If teaching for peace and human rights is to be convincing and effective, however, teachers must be trained who are motivated and aware of the issues. Faculty of Chulalongkorn University, a leading teacher education…

Since videotex and teletext information retrieval systems are likely to become as widespread as television, their impact--personal, social, physical or psychological--should be examined before widespread implementation to insure "the greatest good for the greatest number." Transmitted by television signal, teletext information will probably be…

Information on a Northern Kentucky University course entitled "The Mind of the University" is presented in several articles. After Darryl Poole briefly discusses the origins of the course, H. L. Wallace describes the background of the project, course themes, class materials, and testing/grading. The objective of the course is defined as…

To test whether the number of times viewers watch a television program correlates positively with (1) original expectancy-value measures (EV)--expectations of pleasant outcomes--or (2) changes in EV measures of gratifications, 117 Australian boys in grade 7 were interviewed and given a questionnaire on their responses to specific television…

The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes toward learning about and working with computers of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam students. Attitudes were studied in an attempt to ascertain factors such as anxiety, confidence, liking and, usefulness at the university level. A total of 300 students at various stages of education…

Before the birth of multimedia, films were the major media that could combine audio, visual, movement, color and three-dimensional effects in one presentation. Although its inception was as an entertainment media but researchs found that films could be used as an instructional tool. In this research "Bukit Kepong" (1980), a…

As P. L. Berger and T. Luckmann argue, what the public regards as social reality is a construction to which each member contributes by selecting from all available information to develop a picture of the world. To do so, people negotiate with other people regarding the meaning of the information provided. A logical extension of this theory is that…

The paper first points out how important it is for professionals who work with families and infants with developmental problems to be aware of ethnic and cultural differences, and then goes on to discuss some values typically held by Hispanic Americans. Professionals should understand the family's immigration history and status in order to know…

This publication provides a brief introduction to core ideas of constitutional government in the United State as presented in "The Federalist" by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The first of "The Federalists" papers was written by Hamilton, who joined with Jay and Madison in this series of essays to refute the…

The "pig in the parlor" refers to a growing area of censorship. In this paper, "parlor" stands for public schools, and "pig" for speech that need not be protected if it occurs at an inappropriate time or place, i.e., if such speech is not considered to bear the "imprimatur" of the schools. A review of the…

A study was conducted to assess the values presented in American and Hispanic-American children's readers. The categories of primary interest on the value scale used include: positive behavior, positive feelings, negative behavior, negative feelings, traditional values, Judeo-Christian religious values, other religious values, and neutral values.…

When Asian students decide to study in North American colleges or universities, they expect to experience differences in the new environment, but the actual experiences often cause conflict at such basic levels of life and study that the students need assistance from Canadian or United States faculty or staff in order to achieve the original…

Differences between community college faculty who are doctorally prepared and those who are not in terms of professional values, beliefs, interests, competence, and perceptions of the college environment are discussed, with note taken as to whether these differences persist when discipline and timing of graduate study are taken into account. The…

The national, longitudinal study examined whether racially and ethnically diverse student enrollment patterns in otherwise similar colleges and universities increase the likelihood that college students will develop greater social concern and humanitarian values than students in less racially diverse institutions. Using Allport's contact theory…