Suggestions for developing procedures prior to the implementation of local school control plans were discussed. (Author/RK)

Contends that current life styles prevent forms of citizen action which might address personal as well as world problems. A new set of cultural meanings must be generated which revolve around the human condition, and these meanings must be lived in the day to day experience of persons. (Author/JK)

Teachers who are active within their own community, its problems and its projects, are able to expand their classroom curriculum by involving students in community activities. (JD)

High quality preschool programs that bring long-term benefits for children can be achieved by cooperation with the community to determine what is appropriate for local children. Existing programs must be evaluated for information and to avoid similar problems and children's "burn out" from tightly structured approaches. (CJH)

An innovative pilot program, the Integrated Family Life Education project in Ethiopia is a comprehensive educational effort involving underlying principles of: integration, involvement, cooperation, documentation, acceptability, and manageability. The program is helping to bring about significant changes in the health, nutrition, and economic…

Partners in Quality is a research and development project sponsored by the Canadian Child Care Federation and its affiliates to explore how child care providers, parents, and other partners can work together to support and improve quality in child care. This booklet, in both English and French, is the fourth in a series to support child care…

Conventional notions of leadership have focused on the leader alone rather than on the situation that leaders must enable. The common threads to successful rural community development in Australia over the last few decades lie in the way the community develops its stores of social capital, which is based on trust, shared values, networks, and…

"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that some communities are managing to establish and sustain good-quality infant-toddler care and to make it…

The partnership described focuses on a severe problem with environmental pollution at Akwesasne, the Mohawk reservation situated along the St. Lawrence River, at the juncture of New York, Quebec, and Ontario. Industries are located along the river and its tributaries and in past years have discharged PCBs (and other toxins) into the waterways in…

Describes a community program in which volunteers, from nine-year-old girl scouts to eighty-year-old retired citizens, assist in preparing materials for the local school's science classes. (JR)

Community care-givers can be identified by social service agencies through their visibility in helping others in the community. Professionals must be aware of community needs through the continued identification of indigenous care-givers and the integration of these helpers into the service delivery system. (Author)

The effectiveness of any recreation and park organization depends upon the involvement, cooperation and work of many individual citizens and groups. (JD)

Nursing, medicine, and public health students at East Tennessee State University function as interdisciplinary team members in a community partnership program designed to meet the health care needs of a rural underserved community. The program uses an experiential, inquiry-based learning model. (SK)

Examines how Chinese universities are responding to globalization and internationalization. Captures some university experiences in its cultural complexity and social context. Reveals that local circumstances offset and/or resist the global. Reflects on the difficulty in managing the global within the local of a newly changed context. (CAJ)

Briefly reviews children's literature on the themes of cooperative learning, community cooperation, interdependence, and putting the social back into social studies. Summarizes three books for primary readers, four for intermediate grades, and three for young adults. Covers a wide variety of cooperative learning situations. (CH)